Animal
Behavior Society (http://www.animalbehavior.org/)
This site provides background and research sources for ethology.
Contemporary
Approaches to World Rock Art (http://www.une.edu.au/Arch/ROCKART/MMRockArt.html)
Describes the
science of rock art and provides links to other rock art sites.
Theban
Mapping Project ( http://www.kv5.com)
This site,
developed by an archaeologist, features graphics and images depicting
the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
Amazing Space
(http://amazing-space.stsci.edu)
Developed by the Space Telescope Science Institute,
this site provides
information concerning black holes.
Anglo-Australian
Observatory (http://www.aao.gov.au/)
The Anglo-Australian Observatory's Web site contains astronomical images by
astronomer and photographer David Malin.
Astrophysics
Data System (http://adswww.harvard.edu)
The
Astrophysics Data System is a free bibliographic database for
astronomy and physics references.
Images
of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (http://ad.usno.navy.mil/pne/gallery.html)
Compiled by
astronomers from the US Naval Observatory and Cornell University,
this site showcases images of galactic planetary
nebulae.
SpectraShift.com
(http://www.spectrashift.com)
This site
describes the progress of amateur astronomers engaged in the search
for extra-solar planets.
Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)
Bianary
Neutron Star Simulations
(http://wugrav.wustl.edu/Movies/Balder_index.html)
This site allows
viewers to see a movie of a simulated collision between two neutron stars.
EcoPort
(http://ecoport.org/)
This Web encyclopedia covers the taxonomic information on nearly 50,000 species
of plants and animals.
Extreme
2000 Voyage to the Deep
(http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea)
Background
information on the chemistry and biology of deep-sea vents is offered here.
The
World of Dawkins (http://www.world-of-dawkins.com)
This site is devoted to the evolutionary theories of Richard Dawkins, who
believes that evolution takes place at the genetic level.
Molecular
Expressions Photo Gallery (http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.html)
This
site highlights images of the molecular composition of various
substances, including champagne crystals and DNA.
National
Biotechnology Information Facility (http://www.nbif.org)
This site provides links to almost 7,000 biotechnology sites.
Plant
Trivia Timeline (http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Timeline.html)
This site,
which presents the Plant Trivia Timeline that highlights events in
the botanical history of the Earth, was created by a
botanist.
Vascular
Plant Type Catalog (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc)
Developed by
the New York Botanical Garden, this site offers 2500 digital
photographs of vascular plants.
Cell
Biology: Apotosis (http://vl.bwh.harvard.edu/apoptosis.shtml)
These pages, part of the WWW Virtual Library, provide information on
apoptosis--or cell death--to both students and researchers.
Links
for Chemists (http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html)
This site provides over 7,500 links to other sites for information on, and
research in, chemistry.
MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science (http://www.lcs.mit.edu)
This site
summarizes research conducted on the Oxygen System, a new
infrastructure for information technologies developed at
MIT.
UMBC
AgentWeb (http://www.cs.umbc.edu/agents)
Established by
researchers at the University of Maryland, this site provides a host of
information on intelligent software agents.
Zooland
(http://surf.de.uu.net/zooland)
Applications
of artificial life and evolutionary algorithms ranging from
microbiology to sociology are presented.
Global
Forest Watch (http://www.globalforestwatch.org)
Global Forest Watch provides information from satellites and government agencies
on logging activities around the world.
The
Nature Conservancy (http://nature.org)
This site
provides information about The Nature Conservancy, on of the largest
environmental conservation organizations in the world.
Skeptics
Dictionary
(http://skepdic.com)
Written by a
philosophy professor, The Skeptics Dictionary debunks topics
from homeopathy to UFOs.
Destination Earth (http://www.earth.nasa.gov)
Center For International Earth Science Information Network (http://www.ciesin.org)
Greatest
Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century (http://www.greatachievements.org/)
This site, of the National Academy of Engineering, lists the top twenty
engineering feats of the last century.
Mite
Image Gallery
(http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/mite/mitetxt.html)
Developed by
University of Queensland mite specialist David Walter, this site is
devoted to images of mites.
Ecological
and Social Dynamics...
(http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol3/iss2/art4)
This article in the journal Conservation Ecology, features a computer model for exploring the interplay of commerce and
ecosystem health.
Scorecard
(http://www.scorecard.org)
This site,
developed by the Environmental Defense Fund, rates states and
counties on their pollution.
DNA
Learning Center (http://vector.cshl.org/)
This site is devoted to exploring the parallels between the eugenics movement of
the early 1900's and issues raised in debates today.
SAGE:
Measuring Gene Expression ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SAGE)
Unveiled by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, this site offers
a database of genes that cause cells to turn
cancerous.
Fundamentals
of Physical Geography (http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/)
Offered are an introduction to physical geography, a glossary, and links to
related sites.
New
York State Interactive Mapping Gateway (http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gateway/mg/interactive_main.html
Statewide digital orthophotography. Click on a statewide map to zoom in on
digital satellite images of your city, your street, your house!
Shutter
Radar Topography Mission (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/)
This site contains images of the Earth's surface, generated during the recent
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
Water
Resources of the United States
(http://water.usgs.gov)
Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, this site provides information on
floods, acid rain, streamflow data and other water-related
topics.
University of Texas Institute For Geophysics (http://www.ig.utexas.edu)
Yahoo Science (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology_and_Geophysics/)
The
Basics of MRI (http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm)
This online book describes how magnetic resonance images are created, emphasizing the
physics behind the process.
Archimedes
Home Page (http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html)
Biographical and bibliographical information on the ancient Greek mathematician
Archimedes and his inventions are available at this site.
The
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/)
This site has nearly 1400 short profiles of
famous mathematicians as well as historical information on a multitude of
mathematical topics.
Mathematicians
of the African Diaspora (http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/mad0.html)
Created by Scott W. Williams, Professor of Mathematics at SUNY at Buffalo, this
site includes information on and biographies of African-American mathematicians.
The
Mathematics Genealogy Project (http://hcoonce.math.mankato.msus.edu)
This site
lists the dissertations, universities, and advisors of over 28,000
mathematicians who completed doctorates between 1796 and
1999.
Virtual
Polyhedra (http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html)
Created by sculptor and mathematician George Hart, these pages provide images of
over 1000 polyhedra rendered in virtual reality.
Atlas
of Cancer Mortality (http://www.nci.nih.gov/atlas)
This online
atlas, developed by the National Cancer Institute, documents cancer death rates
in all US counties from 1950 to 1994.
CancerNet
(http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov)
Developed by
the National Cancer Institute, this site presents fact sheets and
news on the latest cancer research.
JAMA
Journal of the American Medical Association (http://pubs.ama-assn.org/)
Full text
OncoLink
(http://oncolink.upenn.edu)
Developed by faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania, this site is
the largest source of cancer information on the
Internet.
PHIL - Public
Health Image Library (http://phil.cdc.gov)
Created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this site documents,
in photographic form, public health threats.
PubMed
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi)
PubMed allows one to search medical databases, and includes
stories linked to tutorials on bioinformatics.
PubMed
Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov)
From the National Institutes of Health, this site posts free, full-text life
science articles from respected journals.
American
Meteorological Society (http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/)
Information on atmospheric and related oceanic and
hydrologic sciences is provided.
GFDL
Laboratory (http://www.gfdl.gov/~jps/GFDL_VG_Gallery.html#Hurricane)
Animated
movies of Hurricane Floyd and other recent hurricanes are presented
by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab.
Herpes
Virus Replication (http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~faculty/wagner/movieindex.html)
This site
presents five animations depicting the life cycle of the herpes
simplex virus.
Protein
Data Bank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/)
This site profiles one of the 10,000 structures in the Protein Data Bank every
month, describing its biology and its role in society.
Brainconnection
(http://www.brainconnection.com)
Brainconnection was designed to get the public interested in neuroscience.
Neuromuscular
Disease Center (http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular)
Information on
the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of neuromuscular diseases such as MS
and ALS are provided here.
Synapse
Web (http://synapses.bu.edu/index.asp)
Synapse Web
offers a brain anatomy tutorial covering everything from micrographs of cells to
virtual reality models of dendrites.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/)
Computational
Paleontology (http://www.notam.uio.no/~oyvindha/compal.html)
Images and animations of fossil life forms ranging from straight-shelled
nautiloids to sea lily-like crinoids are presented.
Earth
History Illustrated (http://gallery.in-tch.com/~earthhistory)
This online
book is a collection of
illustrator Douglas Henderson's paintings of
dinosaurs.
Kevin's
Trilobite home page
(http://24.114.7.13/kevin/trilobites.html)
This
site is devoted to trilobites, giving both scientific and popular
information.
Introduction to Trilobites (http://www.aloha.net/~smgon/trilobite.htm)
Walking
With Dinosaurs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs)
Developed by the BBC, this
site features life-like video clips of
dinosaurs.
PubSCIENCE
(http://pubsci.osti.gov)
PubSCIENCE is an online citation database for the
physical sciences.
IPPEX
(http://ippex.pppl.gov/ippex)
Aimed at
students who want to learn about fusion, this site is part of the Internet
Plasma Physics Education Experience.
Snow
Crystals http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals
This site
features a history of research on snow crystals, a guide for photographing them,
and a primer on the physics of snow crystals.
Superconductors
(http://superconductors.org)
Aimed at students, this site gives theoretical background on and discusses
commercial applications of superconductors.
Mars
Meteorites (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc)
Produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this site provides information on
Martian meteorites.
Jane
Goodall Institute (http://www.janegoodall.org)
This site
documents forty years of research at Gombe, in Tanzania, where Jane
Goodall has studied and protected wild chimpanzees.
National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/)
Near
Earth Object Program (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov)
This site,
developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, gives information on
asteroids that cross Earth's orbit.
Statistical
Assessment Service (http://www.stats.org)
Developed by the Statistical Assessment Service, this site examines how
quantitative research is presented by the media.
Transistorized!
(http://www.pbs.org/transistor/index.html)
Developed by PBS, this site explores the history and science behind the
invention of the transistor.
The
Official U.S. Time (http://www.time.gov)
This site of
the National Institute of Standards and Technology gives exact
Coordinated Universal Time for a chosen US time zone.
Polymers
and Liquid Crystals (http://plc.cwru.edu/tutorial/enhanced/files/textbook.htm)
Aimed at
college chemistry students, this site provides a tutorial on polymers
and liquid crystals.
Science
Service (http://americanhistory.si.edu/scienceservice)
Available at the
Smithsonian Institution's Web site, the Science Service organization chronicles
the history of electronic devices.
The
EMBL Reptile Database (http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/LivingReptiles.html)
This site
describes and gives taxonomic classifications for almost all living
members of the class Reptilia.
Animal
Diversity Web (http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu)
This site
consists of over 1600 accounts of species as well as special sections
that explore a number of topics in animal diversity.
Cephalopod
Page (http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/index.html)
The Cephalopod Page presents information on and images of
octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish.
Caenorhabditis
Elegans WWW Server (http://elegans.swmed.edu)
This site
provides information on the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which was the
first animal to have its genome completely sequenced.