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SCIENCE

General science

Famous Inventions A-Z: An About.com page with alphabetical lists of inventions, timelines, and history essays.

Highlights for High School: Courseware from MIT for high school students and teachers.

How Stuff Works: Easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works — from car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between.

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Honors the men and women responsible for technological advances.

Office of Scientific and Technical Information: A service of the Department of Energy to eanble searches of peer-reviewed journal literature in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines.

Science.gov: A gateway to information resources at the U.S. government science agencies.

Scirus: A science-specific search engine.

Timelinescience: An overview of scientific developments in the last 1,000 years.

Biology

Animal Info: Information on rare, threatened, and endangered mammals. Includes pictures, biology, habitat and references.

AP Biology-Highlights for High School: Materials from MIT's introductory courses to support high school students as they study and educators as they teach the AP Biology curriculum.

Atlas of the Body: A collection of medical illustrations from the American Medical Association.

Biology Browser: A portal of biology resources freely available on the web.

Biology in Motion: Animations, interactive activities and cartoons designed to help students of biology.

BUBL.LINK/570 Life Sciences: Directory of biology-related Internet sites. Frequent updates make this a valuable site.

Encyclopedia of Life: A portal that attempts to aggregate all known data about every living species. Assembled by a partnership of individual scientists, international organizations, technology leaders and research institutions.

Kimball's Biology Pages: A searchable online biology textbook by a former Tufts University biology professor.

Life Science Dictionary: Definitions for more than 8,000 words from the life sciences.

LUMEN-Structure of the Human Body: Created for students at Loyola University-Chicago, LUMEN provides resources for the study of human anatomy. (Lectures, practical exams and dissections are not available.)

Microbes.info: A searchable directory of resources on all aspects of microbiology. 

Virtual Herbarium: Specimen data for 850,000 plants in the digital collection of The New York Botanical Garden.

Visible Human Project: Complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies from the National Library of Medicine.

Chemistry

Chem Finder: A portal of free and subscription scientific databases that contains information on chemical structures and physical properties.

Chemistry.org: Home page of the American Chemical Society.

Common Definitions and Terms in Organic Chemistry: Alphabetical list of organic chemistry terms and definitions.

NIST Chemistry WebBook: National Institude of Standards and Technology data on chemical and physical properties of more than 10,000 compounds.

Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements: A periodic table of the elements that includes striking visual representations of each element, along with information about its discovery, name origin, and properties.

What's That Stuff? Chemical and Engineering News provides descriptions and chemical analyses of self tanners, baseballs, lipstick, fireworks, toothpaste and other common items.

Physics

AP Physics-Highlights for High School: Materials from MIT's introductory courses to support high school students as they study and educators as they teach the AP Physics curriculum.

Center for the History of Physics: The American Institute of Physics presents the history of modern physics and allied fields.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Information about the exploration of the solar system from the California Institute of Technology

Learn Physics Today: Online tutorials in basic, noncalculus physics. Includes mechanics, lights and waves, electricity.

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