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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask | Berkeley Great Web Sites for Kids Selection Criteria | American Library Association How To Evaluate Web Resources "A guide to help students quickly evaluate the credibility of any resource they find on the internet." News Literacy Project Our mission: The News Literacy Project empowers educators to teach students the skills they need to become smart, active consumers of news and other information and engaged, informed participants in civic life. 6 Signs of Credible Sources: Do Unreliable Websites Sabotage Your Research? Pointers for Searching, Searching for Pointers The File Guide: Difference Between JPG, PNG, EPS, PDF, PSD, AI, GIF, TIFF
For Writers: Converting Words to Pages |
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -- Sir Isaac Newton -- |
Online Schooling - Home Schooling Free E-Books Encyclopedias E-Prints, Preprints, Journals, ..... Science News |
"Understanding means seeing that the same thing said different ways is the same thing." |
Search 13,155 of our digitized items: artifacts, photographs, advertisements, letters, rare books, oral histories, and more.
The World Science Festival is a production of the Science Festival Foundation,
a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City.
The Foundation's mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder,
convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
World Science Festival co-founder and Columbia University physicist Brian Greene gives a fuller explanation of what a neutrino is. Brief Videos
On October 6, 2015, Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo and Arthur B. McDonald of Queen's University in Canada won the Nobel Prize in Physics for having discovered that the wispy, ghost-like particles known as neutrinos have mass.
The International Council for Science (ICSU) is a non-governmental organisation with a global membership of national scientific bodies (120 Members, representing 140 countries) and International Scientific Unions (31 Members).
Science.gov is a gateway to government science information and research results. Currently in its fifth generation, Science.gov provides a search of over 55 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2100 scientific Websites.
A consumer advocacy organization whose twin missions are to conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and to provide consumers with current, useful information about their health and well-being.
The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, providing more than 40 percent of total funding for this vital area of national importance. It oversees -- and is the principal federal funding agency of -- the Nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics, and fusion energy sciences.
... a gateway to over 35,300 websites and databases worldwide, containing over 5.5 million e-prints in basic and applied sciences.
release joint publication on climate change | February 27, 2014
Excerpt: "The European Science Foundation acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and research funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives."
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
For over seven decades, our dedicated and celebrated scientists have focused on inspired research,
collaborating across borders and disciplines to discover visionary solutions to humanity's most pressing issues.
The Federation of American Scientists is engaged in analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy for global security.
SciLine is an editorially independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit service for journalists and scientists.
Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators--people who are reshaping the world through act or invention--directed by the world's most celebrated documentary filmmakers.
TheSchoolRun gives you all the tools you need to understand what and how your child is learning at primary school.
Students ask the questions, UCSB Scientists answer them.
This is a comprehensive site providing thousands of downloadable Video lectures, Live Online Tests,etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,
Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, etc. Free Video Lecture Courses are offered by reputed universities and faculty on variety of subjects.
With our three lesson plan templates, educators can create and fill out a lesson plan with a professional design
for their math, science and language arts courses, and download them in PDF or MS Word format with a single click.
World's largest digital library of education resources
For students, parents, teachers, scientists, engineers and mathematicians. More than 14,000 Science Resources sorted by Category, Subcategory, and Grade Level.
Numericana.com is the online companion to Dr. Michon's upcoming "Numericana" book, presenting the recreational and serious sides of
mathematics and physics to a wide audience of scientists, engineers, teachers, parents, students and adults teaching themselves Science.
The Feynman's Lectures on Physics are based on a famous course of undergraduate lectures given at Caltech by Professor Richard Phillips Feynman in the early 1960's. What Dick Feynman had to say to undergraduates about various physical units was considered too trivial by the editors and was not included in the published version of these lectures. We resurrect it here, from the audio record, as a tribute to Richard P. Feynman.
A collection of annotated research papers and accompanying teaching materials
More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories around the world have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials.
A Journey in prehistoric Art of the Lascaux and Chauvet Caves of Southern France
Documentary of artist Ardis Harsche, and her Cave Paintings series created using Encaustic Painting techniques.
"Why seek the miraculous and supernatural beyond life?"
"The heart of biology is that it revolves around the pattern of connections between components."
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy".
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
William C Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu win Nobel prize in medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 Press Release | Press Release - PDF File
Nobel Prize in Medicine is Awarded for Discovery of Brain's 'Inner GPS'
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
For 3 Nobel Winners, A Molecular Mystery Solved Three Americans [James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof] won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules [hormones, enzymes and other key substances] in a cargo system that delivers them to the right place at the right time in cells. |
"Even such mental conditions as anxiety, attention deficit disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder can be viewed through an evolutionary biology perspective as once-adaptive traits gone haywire in a modern world.
"Cancer, too, he writes, 'is actually an aberrant evolutionary process going on within a body.'"
Organism: An individual form of life that is capable of growing, metabolizing nutrients, and usually reproducing. Organisms can be unicellular or multicellular. They are scientifically divided into five different groups (called kingdoms) that include prokaryotes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals, and that are further subdivided based on common ancestry and homology of anatomic and molecular structures. --- The Free Dictionary
Above can be found a long list of E-Prints, Preprints, Journals, Articles, Archives, and Repositories
I. Bacteria (19): Most of the Known Prokaryotes
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II. Archaea (16): Prokaryotes of Extreme Environments
III. Eukarya (35): Eukaryotic Cells
More resources on Genetic Engineering - Regenerative Medicine can be found on the Medical/Health Page.
The Cambrian explosion was far shorter than we thought | Natural History Museum
IPBES to launch 1st global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services since 2005
IPBES: Nature's dangerous decline 'unprecedented,' species extinction rates 'accelerating' | May 6, 2019 - EurekAlert
Global biodiversity report warns pollinators are under threat | Feb., 26, 2016 - Nature
Living Planet Report 2020 | PDF File
Living Planet Report 2018 | PDF Download Available (27 megs)
The Living Planet Index reveals that global populations of fish, birds, mammals,
The 83-page document, a collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, joins a growing and ominous list of
academic research and international reports warning that human activities are causing a steep decline in global biodiversity.
amphibians and reptiles declined by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012.
"How long did it take for evolution to restore the losses after the first-order spasms? The number of families of animals living in the sea is as reliable a measure as we have been able to obtain from the existing fossil evidence. In general, five million years were enough only for a strong start. A complete recovery from each of the five major extinctions required tens of millions of years. In particular the Ordovician dip needed 25 million years, the Devonian 30 million years, the Permian and Triassic (combined because they were so close together in time) 100 million years, and the Cretaceous 20 million years. These figures should give pause to anyone who believes that what Homo sapiens destroys, Nature will redeem. Maybe so, but not within any length of time that has meaning for contemporary humanity."
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What is the smallest flower in the world? | Library of Congress
""Insects did just about everything first. They were the first to form
social societies, farm, and sing - just about anything you can imagine." -- Karl Kjer
Living Planet Report 2018 | PDF Download Available (27 megs)
The Geosciences page includes a brief section on Coral Reefs.
Living Planet Report 2018 | PDF Download Available (27 megs)
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Monarch Journey
A person can do far worse with one's time than spending it enthralled by pictures of butterflies. The Thailand/Burma area, for instance, has a known number of butterfly species exceeding 3,000.
"Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question
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"The thoughts that one creates generate patterns at the mind level of nature."
William Tiller
"What we call our "thoughts" seem to depend upon the organization of tracks in the brain
in the same sort of way in which journeys depend upon roads and railways. The energy used
in thinking seems to have a chemical origin; for instance, a deficiency of iodine will turn a
clever man into an idiot. Mental phenomena seem to be bound up with material structure."
Bertrand Russel
Coulomb's Law | Matter/De Broglie Waves | Condensed Matter Physics
Quantum Hall Effect | Higgs Boson | Particle Physics - History of Discoveries
Dark Matter - Dark Energy
Nanotechnology and the means to create nanostructures is an interdisciplinary pursuit. As such, source material can be found in the sections on biology and chemistry as well as physics. And if I had a section on engineering, it would fall under that category also. Its implications and potential uses are profound and will no doubt dictate a great deal of future breakthroughs. Imagine, for example, a transistor consisting of a single electron. What would that do for the computer industry?
The file above--geometries.jpg--from: The Open Source Handbook of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | Wikibooks
"Einstein's discovery is that gravity, which is a dynamical field, is the geometry of spacetime. Quantum mechanics teaches us that dynamical quantities are noncommutative --meaning that the outcome of the measurement of two of their properties depends on the order in which the measurement is performed. It is therefore natural to suspect that the mathematics needed to describe quantum spacetime is a noncommutative version of geometry."
"The second key idea is to constrain the set of geometries which contribute to the sum to those which implement causality."
A new model for the structure of spacetime: physical applications
PDF File - by Miguel Lorente - University of Oviedo, Spain | IOP Science
Performing a GOOGLE Image search on string theory will return many images,
each of which is associated with a web page or site.
A very elementary overview of the original Kaluza-Klein theory is presented, suitable for undergraduates who want to learn the basic mathematical formalism behind a revolutionary idea that was proposed one hundred years ago, yet today serves as the template for modern higher-dimensional particle and gravity theories. |
Many researchers believe that physics will not be complete until it can explain not just the behaviour of space and time, but where these entities come from. |
"Spacetime is but a large-scale manifestation of some more fundamental entity."
"Space and Time can be born and thus can die.1"
From: Barrow, John D.; Pi In The Sky
Image search results for structure of sun
As of 2017: "Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the Saint Joseph’s University and the author of eighteen popular science books, including Flashes of Creation, The Quantum Labyrinth, Einstein's Dice and Schrodinger's Cat, and Synchronicity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."