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19th Century Scientific American Online - The Scientific American of the 19th century bears little resemblance its 20th century sibling. You can see for yourself at this site which displays the annual years 1845 - 1859, Volumes I - XIV.
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram - Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments - illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics - Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe. Wolfram uses his approach to tackle a remarkable array of fundamental problems in science: from the origin of the Second Law of thermodynamics, to the development of complexity in biology, the computational limitations of mathematics, the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of physics, and the interplay between free will and determinism.
Archives Hub - Established in 1973 to locate, sort, index and catalogue the manuscript papers of distinguished contemporary British scientists and engineers and thus make available for scholarly research original source materials for the history of science and technology, and recent history more generally across a wealth of archives held at nearly 200 institutions in England, Scotland and Wales.
Artefacts Canada: Natural Sciences - A database of approximately one million specimen records representing more than 28,000 different species based on the collections information provided by contributing museums.
Cambridge Digital Library -
While parts of the Library's manuscript collections have already been published in print, microfilm and digital formats, it is now building a substantial online resource so that its collections will be more accessible to students, researchers and the wider public. The Foundations of Science Collection will focus on original scientific manuscripts, beginning with the papers of Isaac Newton and his contemporaries. Cambridge University Library has very strong collections in the history of science. In addition to our Newton collections, the Library holds the papers of, among many other famous scientists, Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Adam Sedgwick, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, James Clerk Maxwell and Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The Library holds the archives of Cambridge's famous Cavendish Laboratory and is also the repository of the Royal Greenwich Observatory archives, which includes the papers of the Astronomers Royal and the Board of Longitude.
Camera Culture MIT Media Lab - Conducts multi-disciplinary research in modern optics, sensors, illumination, actuators, probes and software processing. This work ranges from creating novel feature-revealing computational cameras and new lightweight medical imaging mechanisms, to facilitating positive social impact via the next billion personalized cameras.
CENDI - An an interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) managers from 14 U.S. federal agencies.
Center for the History of Physics - The American Institute of Physics (AIP) preserves and makes known the history of modern physics and allied fields including astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like.
Charles Babbage Institute - An historical archives and research center of the University of Minnesota. CBI is dedicated to promoting study of the history of information technology and information processing and their impact on society.
Châtelet, Émilie du - Émilie began in 1739 to write a textbook for her son on Leibniz's physics. In 1740 she published this work which she called Institutions de physique. This book remains one of the clearest accounts of Leibnizian physics. She is however best known for her work, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, a French translation and analysis of Newton's work the Principia. This work contained chapters on planetary phenomena, the shape of the Earth, the precession of the equinoxes, the ebb and flow of the tides, and lastly the motion of planetary satellites. Further backgrounders here, here and here. Also see Chateau de Cirey: Residence of Voltaire.
CiteSeer - Indexes over 600,000 full-text documents and includes features allowing for citation analysis, reference linking, awareness tracking, and more. Additionally, the site provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used by other digital libraries.
Crawford Prize -
The Crafoord Prize in astronomy and mathematics, biosciences, geosciences or polyarthritis research is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences annually according to a rotating scheme. The prize sum of SEK 4 million makes the Crafoord one of the world´s largest scientific prizes.
Discovery - Combines adventures and expeditions from Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. Comprehensive guides to ancient history, space, health, travel and more.
Dr. Karl's Homepage - Australian Broadcasting Corporation science news and features.
E-print Network - A meta-search for scientific e-print resources and enables federated searching of more than 30 major databases and servers.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) - An online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet.
E-print Network - Physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine. A gateway to over 35,300 websites and databases worldwide.
DOE R&D Project Summaries - Project summaries of ongoing or recently completed U.S. Department of Energy research projects are available for online searching in this publicly accessible database..
EPA Science Inventory - The database contains more than 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products and 19,000+ records. Provided are EPA project descriptions, products produced, types of peer review, links to related work and contacts for additional information.
NSF Awards Database - The database has information about research projects that NSF has funded since 1989. It includes abstracts that describe the research and the names of principal investigators and their institutions.
Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) - Searchable database of federally-funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions that are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies. This search encompasses 2000-to-present records only.
SBA Technology Resources Network (Tech-Net) - Information containing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards, Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards, Advanced Technology Program (ATP) awards, and Manufacturing Extension Partners (MEP) centers. Those seeking small business partners, small business contractors and subcontractors, leading edge technology research, research partners (small businesses, universities, federal labs and non-profit organizations), manufacturing centers and investment opportunities will find pertinent information.
USDA Current Research Information System (CRIS) - CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Projects are conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, the state land-grant university system, other cooperating state institutions, and participants in a number of USDA-administered grant programs.
FIRST - Mission is to to excite more young people about the fun, accessibility, and importance of science and engineering, working toward these goals through programs such as the FIRST Robotics Competition, the FIRST Place Science and Technology Center, and FIRST LEGO League.
Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD) - The U.S. National Science Foundation, a consortium of Russian ministries and science organizations and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have dedicated this global computer network ring for joint scientific and educational projects. GLORIAD provides researchers a means to address scientific issues including joint responses to natural and man-made disasters, safeguards for nuclear materials, better understanding of the human genome, joint exploration of space, distributed monitoring of seismic events and environmental studies and simulations. The network also enables cooperation on international fusion energy research and support the advanced requirements of high-energy physicists.
Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres - The Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific research community. A total of 24,000 staff work in its 15 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centres. The Association's annual budget runs to more than €2 billion.
How Stuff Works - Learn how everything works, from car engines to cruise missles, satellites to telecommunications, from TVs to your refrigerators
History of Chemical Engineering - A history of chemical engineering encompassing its conceptual origins in Great Britain and subsequent struggle for survival in the U.S. Concludes with recent contributions.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) History Center - The Center maintains many useful resources for the engineer, for the historian of technology, and for anyone interested in the development of electrical and computer engineering and their role in modern society.
Joseph Leidy - One of the great American scientists of the 19th-Century, Joseph Leidy is best known as the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology. He pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology. An influential teacher of natural history, he was also an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology and the preeminenat anatomist of his time.
Linus Pauling and the Twentieth Century - A traveling exhibit celebrating the life of one of the world's great scientists and peace activists. Pauling's work earned him two Nobel Prizes: one for Chemistry in 1954 and one for Peace in 1962.
MadSci Network - A collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions. Also, see the Mad Scientist Laboratory, an excellent starting point for exploring science resources on the WWW.
MASSIVE (Math and Science Song Information Viewable Everywhere) - The MASSIVE database contains information on over 1700 science and math songs. Some of these songs are suitable for 2nd graders; others might only appeal to tenured professors. Some songs have been professionally recorded; others haven't. Some are quite silly; others are downright serious. Also, check out companion site, MASSIVE radio, an Internet radio station devoted entirely to science/math songs.
Max Planck Society - Performs basic research in the interest of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Maintains 80 institutes, research units, and working groups that are devoted to a wide range of especially promising research areas.
Medieval Technology Pages - Referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe during the Middle Ages, from agricultural tools to the wine press.
Michio Kaku - Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He’s the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory.
Mind: The Meetings Index - Locate future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia. Proceedings from many events are referenced in its Directory of Published Proceedings.
MIT Media Laboratory - A convergence of computing, publishing, and broadcast, fueled by changes in the communications industry has led to interconnected developments in an unusual range of disciplines brought together by The Media Lab, including cognition, electronic music, graphic design, video, and holography, as well as work in computation and human-machine interfaces.
National Academy Press (NAP) - Created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
National Air and Space Museum - The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight.
National Medal of Science - Established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences."
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) - A comprehensive resource for federally funded scientific, engineering, and business-related information. The database provides full-text access and indexes to over two million publications dating back to 1990. Click here for more information.
Nine Planets, The - An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
NOAA History - The ancestor agencies of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration include the U.S. Coast Survey, the U.S. Weather Bureau, and the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Under these agencies and their descendants the U.S. has become recognized as a world leader in the sciences of geodesy, geophysics, metrology, oceanography, meteorology, climatology, marine biology, and marine ecology.
Nobel Prize - At the age of 17, Swedish Alfred Nobel spoke five languages fluently. Nobel became an inventor and businessman, and at the time of his death on 10 December 1896, he had 355 patents worldwide – one of them was the patent on dynamite. Furthermore, he had started 87 companies all over the world. According to his will, Alfred Nobel's enormous fortune was to be used to establish prizes to award those who had done their best to benefit mankind in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, five years after Nobel's death. In 1969, another prize was added The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Nobel Prize Women in Science - Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 percent - have been women. In this book, now available online, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize - winning project.
NOVA Online/Einstein Revealed - A companion Web site to the NOVA program "Einstein Revealed," originally broadcast in October, 1996.
Nuclear Power Plant Demonstration - The control-room operators of the Kärnobyl nuclear power plant are telecommuting and are running the plant through the Web. However, the mean time between failure for the components of Kärnobyl is not great. Try to keep the reactor stable when component failures occur.
Open Archives Initiative Service Providers - An electronic open access service provider for finding scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in chemistry, physics, engineering, materials sciences, nanotechnologies, microelectronics, computer sciences, astronomy, astrophysics, earth sciences, meteorology, oceanography, agricolture, and related activities.
Physical Sciences Information Gateway (PSIgate) - Quality Internet-based resources in the physical sciences: astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, science history and policy, and aspects of the material sciences.
Physics World - Global physics news and information.
physlink.com - A comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site.
Public Library of Science (PLoS) - A non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Royal Ontario Museum - Collects and exhibits the cultural and natural history of Canada and the world.
Royal Society, The - Publishes seven journals, covering the biological and physical sciences, as well as the history and philosophy of science. This site provides a range of services and facilities including access to the Society's journals, news of recently published science and the opportunity to buy our publications online.
Sci-Math World - Tools to help locate science and math information.
SciDev Net - News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world.
Science.gov - Searches over 45 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.
Science Accelerator -
A gateway to science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.
Science Learning Network - Explores how telecomputing can support inquiry-based science education. Connect with schools and educators, science museums, and other science resources.
Science Museum - Information on the history of science, industry and medicine.
Science Odyssey, A - PBS site covering 100 years of discovery, including: the airplane, penicillin, volcanoes, radio, organ transplants, the computer, psychoanalysis, plate tectonics, black holes, the Model T, DNA, Apollo 8, nylon, the Big Bang.
Scientific and Technical Network (STN) - Connects scientists, engineers and anyone who needs technical information to the world's most complete and authoritative databases.
Scientific Commons - The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public.
Scientific Revolution, The - Sourcebook to Astonomy in the 16th Century, Galileo Galilei, The Philosophy of Science: Induction/Deduction, Classical Physics, Medical Theories, Scientific Institutions and more.
Scientists Without Borders - A web-based collaborative community dedicated to generating, sharing, and advancing innovative science and technology-based solutions to the world`s most pressing global development challenges.
SciQuest - A leading business-to-business e-marketplace for scientific products used by pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, industry and educational organizations worldwide.
Scirus - Search engine for scientific information.
Shadowlands - Dedicated to ghosts and hauntings, mysterious creatures such as Bigfoot and sea serpents, UFOs and aliens, and many other unsolved mysteries.
Skeptic.com - Home to The Skeptics Society, a scientific and educational organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers, and anyone curious about controversial ideas, extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas, and the promotion of science.
SmarterScience - Consultancy and service business working predominantly for the corporate world, research organizations and individual scientists. Assists with research in the all natural and physical sciences, but specializes in marine, earth and environmental sciences.
SpringerLink - The premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
Storming Media - Provides unclassified reports and documents from the Pentagon about science, technology, strategy or policy.
Straight Dope - Fighting ignorance since 1973 with answers to all variety of science and other questions.
Tech Museum of Innovation - Hands-on technology museum located in San Jose, California. Visit the Online Exhibits or search the PC Encyclopedia.
Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) -
An initiative led by the University of Arizona in collaboration with CRL and other interested agencies to identify, digitize, archive, and provide access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
Technical reports communicate research progress in technology and science; they deliver information for technical development to industry and research institutions contributing to the continued growth of science and technology. These highly detailed reports contain valuable information serving specialized audiences of researchers. While availability to more recent (1994–current) technical report literature has greatly improved with Internet access, legacy technical report documents remain elusive to researchers.
Worlds of David Darling - Astrobiology, astronomy and spaceflight news, encyclopedia, and links. Maintained by science writer David Darling, Ph.D.
Write Science Right - English-speaking professional scientists with experience conducting scientific research as well as reading, writing and publishing scientific articles provide scientific editing services.
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