Science and Technology

General

BBC News - Science/Nature
Follow links to news articles and video and audio news or use the search box to look for a specific topic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/ hi/ sci/ tech/ default.stm

How Things Work
Simple explanations, with colour diagrams, of a great variety of equipment and technical issues.
http://www.howstuffworks.com

Intute - Science and Technology
Search and browse "web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science"
http://www.intute.ac.uk/ sciences/

Making the Modern World
Stories about science and invention from the eighteenth century to today, provided by the Science Museum. Key inventions, science and technology in everyday life, learning modules on varied topics
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/

New Scientist
Many science and technology topics, including space, technology, environment, health, life, physics and maths, science in society
http://www.newscientist.com/

Open2.net - Science, Technology and Nature
Readable articles to many science and technology topics, along with interactive guides
http://www.open2.net/ sciencetechnologynature/ index.html

Royal Society
The word's oldest scientific academy. Online resources include, under the 'News' menu, a useful 'Science issues' section covering such topics as climate change, stem cells and more; and the interactive timeline 'Trailblazing' site (described in its own separate Gateway entry)
http://royalsociety.org/

Schoolscience.co.uk
Interesting science resources for students from primary level to 16-19 and also of interest to the older learner, in this site from the Association for Science Education. Covers chemistry, physics, biology, earth science and more
http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/

Science Photo Library
Search 100,000 high quality science images
http://www.sciencephoto.com/

ScienceNet
News, features and the opportunity to send your questions to scientists.
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/

Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations
Acronyms, symbols and abbreviations in all science and technical subjects. Search, browse or view as reference tables. This is a free section of the Wiley InterScience site
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/ stasa/ search.html

Scinet
A directory and search engine relating to science sites.
http://www.scinet.cc

Scirus
Search engine for scientists. Scirus covers more than 60 million science related pages from the Web and from membership sources like ScienceDirect BioMedNet, Neuroscion and ChemWeb. Scirus delivers more relevant search results because it skips sites without scientific content, indexes complete documents, searches the whole web including access-controlled sites, and reads non-text files like PDF.
http://www.scirus.com

Scisee
Gateway to science sites.
http://www.sciseek.com

Sense About Science
Explanations from specialists on many popular science topics. Includes 'I don't know what to believe', a guide to to how scientific research is checked and published
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/

TechXtra
Searches engineering, mathematics and computing information. Finds articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research and more.
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/

The Scientific World
Click 'Scibase' to search millions of scientific articles. You can search by title, journal, year, author and keywords. Many articles have a fairly detailed abstract.
http://www.thescientificworld.com/

Trailblaizing
The Royal Society's interactive timeline. Includes 'sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 published by the Royal Society between 1665 and 2010'.
http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/

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Page last updated: 21 May 2012