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NEWS, eZines, Magazines, Journals, Blogs, ...

• BBC Science & Nature news.
• Discover news.
• Discovery Channel news.
• Nature magazine.
• Red Nova magazine.
• Sceptic Society. News, magazine, ...
• Science Daily news.
• Science & Development Network (SciDevNet). News & views regarding developing countries.
• Science Links Japan.
• Science News online.
• Science Magazine of Applied Biosystems.
• Sciencebase News and much more by David Bradley.
• Spotlight; the David Bradley's column at Intute.
• TechDirt. Technology oriented critical news.
• The National Academies Press.
• World Science.
• World Science Forum.
• Notizie e Riviste Italiane
• Il Portale degli Universitari.
• Le Scienze.
• Newton.
• Scienza Esperienza.
• UniversiNet. Un e-zine degli univeritari Italiani.
• Journals
• arXive. A huge repository of free science articles at Cornell University.
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Editors and scientists: Join this movement!
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), managed by Lund University Libraries. Great!
• EUREKA, the Science Journal Watch. You must read this.
• Science Direct, an entry gate to over 1800 journals.
• PubMedCentral. A huge repository of free life-sciences articles at NIH.
• Blogs:
• Mathematics Journals blog of John Ewing. Great reflections about scientific publishing.
• Science blog of David Bradley on his Sciencebase.
• Science Blogs, a roof science blogging system.
• The Scientific Activist, now hosted by Science Blogs.

EDUCATION, online learning, free online books, and plain fun

• arXive. A huge repository of free science articles at Cornell University.
• Computer History Museum, a great place to visit.
• Centre for Bioscience of the Higher Education Academy.
• Center for the Popularization of Mathematics (CPM) at Uni Wales, Bangor, UK.
  Great, especially on knots and sculpture.
• Climate Change Education. Global warming, climate change and solutions.
• edHelper. Science stuff for kids and their teachers.
• Electronics Tutorials. Recommended categories: basic electronics, kits, humour.
• Higher Education Academy. A UK academic educational support initiative.
• History of Chemistry. Collection of links, including history of science in general.
• Hubble heritage project. Don't miss the image gallery page.
• Hubble telescope site. Have a look at their Fun & Games page.
• Images of the Sun from SOHO. Near real time and historic.
• Images of the Earth from EUMETSAT satellites.
• Images of the Earth from GEOS.
• Math and Reading Help for Kids, a nice directory of math-education articles, games, etc.
• Medical Site online books (by specialty).
• NASA/Spacelink. It's a vast space out there ...
• Near Earth Objects watch. Will a big one hit us soon ?!
• Nobel Prize Organization Outreach Program.
  A growing set of Games, Simulations and Readings pertinent to various Nobel-grade discoveries.
• NTEN National Teachers Enhancement Network. Science education.
• PubMedCentral. A huge repository of free life-sciences articles at NIH.
• Scitable Learn about Genetics at Scitable from Nature Education.
• Smithsonian Institution. Museums + much more.
• Solar eclipse video available at the Pakistani Khwarzimic Society web site.
• Sky almanac for skygazers at Star Date magazine (Texas).
• The Science of Spectroscopy for the advanced.
• Views of the Solar System collected by Calvin J.Hamilton.
• Virtual Math Museum maintained by R.Palais. Amazing.
• Vision Laerning, a great site for teachers and pupils alike. Go first to Library.
• WorldWide Telescope, a nice initiative by Microsoft Research.
• Online learning and degrees
  (a great way to study at distance, but always check their accreditations in order to avoid fraud)
• EarnMyDegree. Search for an accredited online/campus degree program.
• Guide to Online Schools. Covers over 3900 degrees of all kinds.
• OpenCourseWare Consortium, a broad, international initiative.
• University of Phoenix online. The first and largest in the USA.
• World Wide Learn, a reliable directory of on-line & on-campus education.
• Free Online Books, Courses, Lectures and other Texts
• Cornell University Library Windows on the Past. An excellent open-access resource.
• Course Correction report from Make Textbooks Affordable. Interesting.
• Directory of free online Books. Crammed with ads, many links are broken or point to garbage (e.g. old Company manuals) but worth browsing only when you have a lot of time.
• Free Books with accent on mathematics, programming and computer science.
• Free online Classes listed on Guide to Online Schools. A great list.
• Free online CHEMISTRY books. Manually selected and checked links.
• Free online ELECTRONICS books. Manually selected and checked links.
• Free online MAGNETIC RESONANCE texts. Manually selected and checked links.
• Free online MATH books. Manually selected and checked links.
• Free online PHYSICS books. Manually selected and checked links.
• Free online SOFTWARE development books. Manually selected and checked links.
• FreeScience directory of over 1500 free, online books.
  Very valuable resource, though it counts as books also courses and scripta.
• MIT Open CourseWare initiative. Free courses and books.
• Scribd, a huge books and documents database. You must subscribe, but it is free.
• Tech Books for Free. Free books on technology subjects.
• TextBook Revolution. Students and teachers, don't miss this one!
• Web Teaching, an online book about how to teach through Internet written by David W.Brooks, Diane E.Nolan and Susan G.Gallagher. 2nd Edition (2000). A bit old but excellent.
• Fun, poetry, stories, ...
• Annals of Improbable Research. This is fun.
• Bizarre Stuff. You can make it in your kitchen.
• Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm.
  by A.T.Williams. Unusual, stuffed with links and poetry. Worth pondering.
• Crystal Radio. Crystal radios, kits, parts, and supplies for the radio enthusiast.
• Eye tricks. Most amusing.
• FunFacts at Harvey Mudd College. Have fun with Math!
• Geek stuff shop. See air-zooka, romp pendulum, etc...
• Mathematical Art at the Virtual Math Museum. Amazing.
• Phun Physics from the University of Virginia.
• Science poetry & fun corner in Stan's and Lucia's Log Cabin.
• Science poetry inspired by Space exploration by Stuart Atkinson.
• Science Songs by Greg Crowther et al. See also his science songs links.

Low-cost INSTRUMENTS for Education & Home Science

• Cenco Physics. An educational and home-science instrumentation supermarket.
• MatchRockets. Experimental Science for everyone.
• Ocean Optics. Affordable VISIBLE, UV and IR spectrometers and optics.
  USB instruments. Look up spectrometers for education.
• Physlink Science e-Store. Science gadgets for kids. Great.
• PV Scientific Instruments. Reproductions of historic instruments.
• TeachSpin. Small instruments for teaching Science.
• TelAtomic. Small instruments for teaching Science.

DICTIONARIES, Encyclopedias and Wikies

• BABEL. On-line Glossary of Computer-Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics by Eric Weisstein, at Mathworld of Wolfram Research.
• DADS. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures at NIST.
• Dictionarist, a multi-lingual, talking on-line dictionary.
• DiracDelta, a Science & Engineering Encyclopedia.
• Educypedia. An educational encyclopedia.
• Encyclopeadia Britannica.
• FOLDOC. Free on-line Dictionary of Computing.
• Medline Plus. NIH medical encyclopedia.
• Merriam - Webster Online. One of the best english dictionaries.
• Microsoft Encarta Dictionary.
• Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.
• Tech Encyclopedia centers on Informatics and Computers.
• Technical Library online. Concentrates on electronics.
• TechWeb Encyclopedia.
• The Worlds of David Darling. Astronomy, Space, Alternative energy, Sustainable living.
• Units of Measurements Dictionary by Russ Rowlett at UNC.
• Weisstein's Dictionaries (by Eric Weisstein).
• Word Reference. A multi-language dictionary (English, French, Italian, Spanish).
• Word Reference italiano, inglese, francese e spagnolo.
• Wikies
• Wikipedia Free Web encyclopedia.
• Webopedia Free Web-based computer encyclopedia.

DATABASES and Link Directories

• The three heavyweight DataBases (permanently interconnected):
• CAS, Chemical Abstracts Services, a division of ACS.
• STN, Science and Technology International, located un Germany.
• JST, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
• ... and the others:
• AIST database (Japan). Very good and free.
• arXive, huge repository of free scientific articles at Cornell University. See also Front for arXive.
• Chemdex. Huge chemistry Directory at Uni Sheffield (by Mark Winters).
• Chemistry Thesaurus. Free and excellent.
• Chmoogle. A google-like chemistry database.
• CODATA, Committee on Data for Science and Technology.
• Constants of Physics and Mathematics. Fundamental constants with SI dimensions.
• Engineering Fundamentals database.
• FreeScience, a directory of over 1500 free online books.
  Very valuable resource, thought it counts as books also courses and scripta.
• Genome Gateway. Genomics links, references, data, ....
• HyperPhysics. An amazing physics database at Georgia State University..
• NIST Chemistry Webbook (chemical data).
• NIST Physical Reference Data (physical constants etc).
• Scribd, a huge books and documents database. You must subscribe, but it is free.
• SI Units and Prefixes.
• SI Dimensions of Physical Quantities. Over 200 quantities in 21 categories.
• Universal Nuclide Chart from Nucleonica (a site maintained by the EU).
• Link directories and Search engines
• BUBL Link. An amazing collection of links, each with a brief description, at Strathclyde University.
• WebRing of Science.
• Search Engines
• DMOZ Open Directory Project. The largest human-edited directory.
• Intute. Very nice and absolutely serious.
• One Look has a very interesting approach.
• Scirus is dedicated to sites with scientific information.
• SciSeek has an very rich set of categories.

STANDARDS and Norms

• AIST National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan).
• ANSI American National Standards Institute.
• ASQ American Society for Quality.
• ASTM International. Formerly American Standards and Measures.
• BIPM. The home page of the SI System of Units. English version.
• CEN Comitè Européen de Normalization (European Committee for Standardization).
• CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology.
• DOE Fundamental Standards at the HSS (Office of Healths, Safety and Security).
• EA European co-operation for Accreditation.
• ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
• FDA US Food and Drug Administration.
• FCC Federal Communications Commission (USA).
• IEC International Electrotechnical Commission.
• IEEE standards.
• ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation.
• IQA Institute of Quality Assurance.
• ISBN International Standard Book Number. They assign the numbers.
• ISO International Organization for Standardization.
• NIST. National Institute of Standards.

PHILOSOPHY of Science, Epistemology, ...

• Carl Gustav Jung, the human mind explorer.
• Consciousness studies at Uni Arizona. Quantum-mind !?
• Dmytro Taranovsky. An eclectic scientist at MIT.
• Episteme Links, a great links collection by Thomas Ryan Stone.
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet by Peter Suber.
• HYLE, International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry. Open access.
• Is Life Improbable?, an article by John C.Baez.
• Karl Popper at the University of Klagenfurt site (Austria).
• Philosophy around the Web by Peter J.King.
• Philosophy of Science Archives at University of Pittsburg.
• Philosophy of Science Links collected by Peter J.King.
• Philosophy of Science Resources collected by B.Janz.
• Philosophy related Resources at University of Liverpool.
• Popper, Bayes and the Inverse Problem by Albert Tarantola
• Quantum Theory and the Bayesian Inference Problems by Stan Sykora.
• Science and pseudoscience: how to tell the difference, by Stephen Lower.
• Symmetries and Reflections, an essay by E.P.Wigner.
• The Critical Rationalist journal.
• The Huxley file, an online book about T.H.Huxley by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce.
• The Philosophy of Science Association.

HISTORY of Science

• Charles Darwin online. Complete works.
• Cornell University Library Windows on the Past.
  Excellent open-access resource.
• Epact: Scientific instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
• History of Chemistry links on this site.
• History of Computing links on this site.
• History of Magnetic Resonance links and references on this site (NMR, MRI, ESR, NQR).
• History of Mathematics links on this site.
• History of Physics links on this site.
• History of Russian Science and Technology. A huge virtual guide at MIT.
• History of Science Society.
• Nuclear Files. A project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

EVENTS: Conferences, meetings, ...

• Gordon Research Conferences.
• Keystone Symposia (Biochemistry and Life Sciences).
• World Science Forum 2009 Conference will be held November 5-7, 2009 in Budapest (Hungary).
• Past events:
• Q2Cfestival, Quantum to Cosmos Festival,
  took place October 15-25, 2009, in Waterloo, Ontarion, Canada.

Books about Science: Popularization, Philosophy, History, ...
Great gifts for friends and youngsters! Sorted by year and [1st] Author.

For free science and math books available on the internet, click here

• Bloomfield Louis A.,
  How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life,
  4th Edition, Wiley 2009. ISBN 978-0470223994. more >>
• Bostock David,
  Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction,
  Wiley-Blackwell 2009. ISBN 978-1405189927. more >>
• Clegg B.,
  The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon,
  St. Martin's Griffin 2009. ISBN 978-0312555306. more >>
• Dowkins Richard,
  The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution,
  Free Press 2009. ISBN 978-1416594789. more >>
• Muller Richard A.,
  Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines,
  W.W.Norton & Co. 2009. ISBN 978-0393337112. more >>
• Ray Darrell W.,
  The God Virus: How religion infects our lives and culture,
  IPC Press 2009. ISBN 978-0970950512. more >>
• Raymer M.G.,
  The Silicon Web: Physics for the Internet Age,
  Taylor & Francis 2009. ISBN 978-1439803110. more >>
• Sadoff Ahren,
  Questioning the Universe: Concepts in Physics,
  Chapman & Hall/CRC 2009. ISBN 978-1420082586. more >>
• Daintith John, Editor,
  Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists,
  5th Edition, Francis & Taylor 2008. ISBN 978-1420072716. more >>
• Atkins Peter,
  Four Laws That Drive the Universe,
  Oxford University Press 2007. ISBN 978-0199232369. more >>
• Penrose Roger,
  The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe,
  Vintage 2007. ISBN 978-0679776314. more >>
• Stewart Ian,
  Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry,
  Basic Books 2007. ISBN 978-0465082360. more >>
• Daintith John, Editor,
  A Dictionary of Science,
  5th Edition, Oxford University Press 2005. ISBN 978-0192806413. more >>
• Atkins Peter,
  Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science,
  Oxford University Press 2004. ISBN 978-0198609414. more >>
• Lesmoir-Gordon Nigel,
  The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals,
  Clear Books 2004. ISBN 978-1904555056. more >>
• Wilson Edward O.,
  The Future of Life,
  Vintage 2003. ISBN 978-0679768111. more >>
• Hofstadter Douglas R.,
  Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,
  20th anniversary Edition, Basic Books 1999. ISBN 978-0465026562. more >>
• Kuhn Thomas S.,
  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
  3rd Edition, University Of Chicago Press 1996. ISBN 978-0226458083. more >>
• Abott Edwin A.,
  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,
  Dover Publications 1992. ISBN 978-0486272634. Originally published in 1880. more >>
• Popper Karl,
  The Logic of Scientific Discovery,
  Routledge 1992. ISBN 978-0415278447. more >>
• Mandelbrot Benoit B.,
  The Fractal Geometry of Nature,
  W.H.Freeman 1983. ISBN 978-0716711865. more >>