Science resources

1999

From the American Institute of Physics: What's new in physics?

Click here for the Encyclopedia Britannica Online.

This national academies link takes you to the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

The American Geophysical Union seems designed for geographers, ecologists, earth scientists, and anyone with similar interests.

Please send in any information on links to other organizations here.

The following sites seem interesting, but have not been thoroughly examined. Some are commercial enterprises, but nevertheless are scientific in nature.

Several biology-related links (some with much statistical data):

• National Institutes of Health, the home page for NIH (an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services); from it you can find links to the other agencies' pages, such as...
• Food and Drug Administration, as well as...
• Centers for Disease Control, also the homepage of an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services; other sites of interest include
• World Health Organization, a site containing some statistical and epidemiological records;
• National Center for Infectious Diseases, a site providing some information concerning the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases; and
• National Center for Biotechnology Information, a site providing some access to information from DNA and protein databases.

Click here for The Nature Conservancy .

Click here for Skywatcher's Diary from Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University.

Views of the solar system seems to be for those interested in images as well as information about the solar system.

Click here for online information from Scientific American, and here for New Scientist.

Click here for online information from the Rainforest Action Network.

Click here for online information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Click here for online information from the National Geophysical Data Center (part of NOAA, it seems).

Click here for online information from the Goddard Space Flight Center (part of NASA). Click here for online information from Goddard about solar observations (the Solar Data Analysis Center).

Click here for online information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (different site from that above: Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory).

Click here for online information from the UC Museum of Paleontology (this site has information about phylogeny, evolution, etc.)

While not a scientific site, this may be a useful reference: try here for street maps in the United States.

In addition, an interesting and possibly amusing site: the wacky patent of the month.

Finally, not scientific sites but of interest anyway: (1) Unabridged dictionary from Merrian Webster and (2) art from the Louvre in Paris.