Science Guide
Organizations
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The quintessential all-science org., and their EurekAlert news blog is timely.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
A lively site, and check out the star parties if you’re going to be in the area.
Resource for, among other things, some terrific science podcasts ( An Inquisitive Age, Balloon Madness, and Why Creationism is Wrong and Darwin is Right - to list only three).
IUCN - The World Conservation Union
The IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species
Magazines
Website from the leading magazine of it’s genre.
Source of latest biology news.
Source of science, technology, health and environmental news. What are 101 amazing earth facts?
Nature magazine has their entire history of magazines archived online, going back to 1869.
“The ultimate science and technology website.”
Online resource for latest research.
“Science Special Issues” archives were most useful (accessible under “Collections”)
Magazine of the Life Sciences
Many interesting articles, plus check out their amazing picture gallery. For podcast lovers, there’s also 60 Second Science.
Here you’ll find a large collection of pictures, videos, multimedia, and trivia. What are the strangest things in space? Where is the rest of the universe?
Fields
Anatomy
3D human body that you can travel (like Google Maps but focused on anatomy).
Astronomy
European Space Agency has a collection of satellite images.
Browse and observe the universe; including different wavelengths.
Database of all NASA images, from the folks at Internet Archive.
“The internet’s virtual telescope,” lets you view and download pictures.
National Geographic site helps you explore those bodies closest to us.
GIF image changes to show earth in relation planets in our solar system, then continues expanding in size.
Free downloadable “planetarium” for your desktop.
Universe within 1 billion light years.
The Check out the draggable space model with constellations highlighted, learn more about distant stars or you can even see a model of the stars that are above you right now.
It’s a virtual telescope that uses real images taken by the Hubble and other telescopes, knitted together seamlessly.
Anthropology/Archaeology
Penn Museum has a great collection on online exhibits; consider Glass Making in Roman Times or Origins/Ancient History of Wine.
Botany
The Linnean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm comprises some 4000 herbarium specimens, several of which are types formally designated by various experts.
Chemistry
Great resource for chemists, molecular biologists, and others.
Wired’s pick of the 10 most amazing chemistry experiement videos of all time.
Ecology
Online review articles about ecology, natural history and the environment.
Geography
Plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents over the last 1110 million years.
Geology
American Geological Institute’s resource, includes interactive timeline and photo image bank.
Illustrated descriptions/explanations of everything from earthquakes and glaciers to volcanoes.
US Geologic Society focuses on biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water.
Meterology
Live lightning strike map of U.S. (last 60 minutes).
Discovery Channel site with good interface lets you see the dynamics of weather and climate.
Neuroscience
Videos from leading brain researchers explain what scientists have learned about the workings of the mind - and how they made their discoveries.
Live storm chasing action can be found here. Impressive technology.
Paleontology
Stephen J. Gould
The Official Stephen J. Gould Archive (still under development, but includes two of his books and his Harvard course online); the Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive, includes a video archive;
Physics
Free Phisics Video Lectures Online
The Mechanical Universe…and Beyond is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videotape programs covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course - each program opens and closes with Caltech Professor David Goodstein.
Monthly magazine of news, features and reviews.
Good source of latest physics and astronomy stories, references and directories.
Photons, Corpuscles of Light. Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics. Lectures on Electricity and Magnetism.
Professor Julius Sumner Miller
A large collection of the physics professor in action on YouTube.
Resources
Database of ageing and life history of animals
Atom
The Clash of the Titans, The Key to the Cosmos, The Illusion of Reality. Three wonderful hours of BBC science.
Site covers bloggers posts on basic concepts in science.
General definitions, background information and examples from biology, chemistry, physics and math.
Beyond Belief Enlightenment 2.0: video(s) of the five sessions of the 2007 Beyond Belief conference on science and religion (each approx. 4 hours long).
Break The Science Barrier
Originally broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4 in 1996, Break the Science Barrier follows the Oxford Biologist Richard Dawkins as he meets with people who have experienced the wonders of science first-hand: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Cafe Scientific helps you locate where the upcoming meet will take place- the rise of science cafes. Founded in London, the global network of Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context.
E.O. Wilson of Harvard “Lord of The Ants” (PBS) 5-Part Series.
Medical search and data visualization rolled into one.
The complete works of Darwin online.
Molecular Visualization of DNA is a short YouTube video with amazing visuals
Collection of moving diagrams illustrate basic planetary science and geographic related data.
Resource of known meteor impact sites by continent.
University of Texas site lays out lessons on electronic circuits.
Aims to detail all 1.8 million known plant and animal species in a net archive. Individual species pages will include photographs, video, sound and maps, collected and written by experts.
Searchable database of equations, constants, symbols and SI units, arranged by field.
Free Science Videos and Lectures
Listing of all frogs, including pictures and sounds.
A site that helps you “explore, create and share intelligent maps.”
Database contains over 8 million geographical names, including over 6 million unique features.
Access hundreds of geographic sites from around the world; source of maps.
Information and links about space-related hobbies, including amateur astronomy, satellite design, and rocketry for both beginners and experts.
Amazing stargazing. Here’s their entire picture gallery.
Wellcome has a stunning interactive site allowing users to cruise the human heart; learn just about anything you want, while being stunned by the amount of time and effort that went into this amazing site.
Dr. Kay Holekamp’s site; hyena pictures; The Hyena Pages.
Website brings together images and insights on science and culture.
National Geographic: where you can learn more about our solar system.
Virtual map journey of modern mankind over the last 160,000 years (3 minutes).
Visual of all known objects in our solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter.
Medical PhotosWellcome Trust releases 2000 years of medical photographs
News and research on nanotechnology, by the Pew Charitable Trust and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
A resource for people learning anatomy.
15 minute online course that will help you identify constellations, stars and planets and help you navigate at night.
Kid site from the American Museum of Natural History that helps kids study the ologies, like biology, geography, astronomy, etc.
All about understanding penguin response to climate change.
Periodic Table of Videos (University of Nottingham)
Physical and astronomy reference.
During the Mesozoic period, prehistoric marine reptiles roamed the ancient oceans.
Blog from several climate scientists and geophysicists; searchable and browsable
Links to general and subject-specific animations.
A science video search engine where all videos have been prescreened by scientists as to accuracy.
Science images searchable by category.
Web portal to science research and scientific journals.
Chronology from 7th millenium BC to present.
Partnering with the Public Library of Science, the National Science Foundation and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, SciVee is a platform allowing scientists to share their research through any combination of text, video, audio, and online discussions.
Science Visualization Challenge - 2006
Winners of the 200s science and engineering challenge are presented, as well as an archive of past winners.
Eric’s Slide Rule Site has everything you need to know about slide rules, and how to get one.
Star Sizing
Snow Crystals is all about snow structure and snowflakes.
Who knew VY Canis Majoris was so large, and our sun so small.
Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
History of evolutionary thought through a few of the key thinkers, from Aristotle to Alfred Wegener.
Often the shortest route is a straight line between two points, unless of course you live on a sphere. (Unless, of course, you wanted to dig a really big hole.)
Water anomalies and water structure.
Wildlife Disease Information Node
US Geological Survey in partner with University of Wisconsin site tracks news of disease outbreaks in wild and domesticated animals.
One of the best writers of science; What is a species? Expressing our individuality, the way E. Coli do. Devious butterflies, full-throated frogs and other liars.