Author Topic: Sites of Scientific Interest (Read 16398 times)

Barney_Rubble · « **on:** October 9, 2005, 03:53:59 AM »

Some websites which may be of interest...

NASA

ESA

Amazing Space

Google Earth

Hubble Site

Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

Solar Views

National Geographic

Curious Math

BBC Science

Windows XP Tweaks & Tips

High-speed (super slow motion) Video Clips

Jodrell Bank Observatory Site

SciCentral

New Scientist

Guardian Science

Science Mag

PHD Comics - Quality cartoon strip about graduate life!

Popular Science

National Hurricane Centre

Earthquake Centre

How Stuff Works - the eponymous site.

CERN

Wikipedia

Barney_Rubble · « **Reply #1 on:** October 9, 2005, 03:54:25 AM »

Post some more...

Eli_B (aka Badland Red) · « **Reply #2 on:** December 5, 2005, 05:57:25 PM »

Barney.

How about Met Office - The Meterological Office website, for weather and climate data, shipping forecasts etc.

British Geological Study - The British Geological Society website

wacko · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2005, 07:37:48 PM »

The Straight Dope is pretty interesting. Basically explains or debunks scientific theories.

Very computer and console specific is Ars Technica. Pretty technical articles that you don't need a degree in engineering to understand.

Del.icio.us is a great place to find stuff that interests you, whatever you like.

Finally, the Kuro5hin technology and science sections have some good articles, too.

mobydick · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2005, 06:27:10 PM »

Found this interesting, hope it's not been posted before.

http://www.aip.de/groups/galaxies/sw/udf/swudfV1.0.html

I really find it difficult to comprehend this amount of space and time............................we are not alone

The colours are pretty too.

Raul! · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2006, 11:11:38 AM »

This is quite interesting

Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. Users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

http://www.digg.com/

rob76 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 13, 2006, 02:42:26 PM »

Wanna take a closer look at.....mars??

http://www.google.com/mars/

heighwayheaven · « **Reply #7 on:** November 7, 2006, 12:21:16 AM »

www.nasa.gov for loads of space stuff about missions past and present

or if you want to see where the space station is right now or when you can see it in the sky try this one:
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

theCanadian · « **Reply #8 on:** March 2, 2007, 07:08:28 PM »

ISI Web of Knowledge

http://isiwebofknowledge.com/

Google Scholar

www.google.com/scholar

mightykopite8 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 29, 2007, 04:16:16 PM »

flw · « **Reply #10 on:** November 5, 2007, 04:19:09 PM »

Just been on Hubblesite.How can we be not alone? amazing pictures

Redwhiteandnotblue · « **Reply #11 on:** March 12, 2008, 12:17:11 AM »

Given so many space sites get listed here I'll add http://www.universetoday.com/

They're an excellent site with regularly updated and topical content - e.g. lots of stuff on the recent shuttle launch. They did however manage to make me laugh out loud with this completely serious article in November:

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/11/13/podcast-uranus/

Phil M · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2008, 12:24:36 AM »

Quote from: flw on November 5, 2007, 04:19:09 PM

Just been on Hubblesite.How can we be not alone? amazing pictures

Great shout.

I love that site, the pictures are awesome, it's desktop heaven.

arae · « **Reply #13 on:** March 13, 2008, 06:01:01 PM »

Quote from: wacko on December 11, 2005, 07:37:48 PM

The Straight Dope is pretty interesting. Basically explains or debunks scientific theories.

Love it.

Puskas · « **Reply #14 on:** March 20, 2008, 12:48:22 PM »

Lots of space stuff been linked. How about some... Evolution Baby?

TalkOrigins (the FAQ contains an excellent introduction to evolution)
Some of the works of Charles Darwin, in full. Including The Origin Of Species, 6th edition.
Panda's Thumb (pro-evolution/anti-creationism blog)

Mixture of general science stuff:
ScienceBlogs
Seed Magazine

And back to outer space, a musical interlude:
The Galaxy Song

rich7321 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 31, 2008, 08:33:02 PM »

If you like fish - Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science www.cefas.co.uk

British Antarctic Survey website (some really good pictures and other bits) www.antarctica.ac.uk

Lostdownsouth · « **Reply #16 on:** August 6, 2008, 05:36:07 PM »

For pure conspiracy theory reasons can I suggest http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/ - all those photographs from space seen above are fake

disclaimer: No I dont believe the earth is flat!

pheel · « **Reply #17 on:** September 4, 2008, 11:04:52 AM »

Quote from: Lostdownsouth on August 6, 2008, 05:36:07 PM

For pure conspiracy theory reasons can I suggest http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/ - all those photographs from space seen above are fake

disclaimer: No I dont believe the earth is flat!

They are more deluded than the bitters.

red_to_the_toe · « **Reply #18 on:** November 4, 2008, 02:48:35 AM »

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/

The forecast for today is...

Solar activity goes in 11 year cycles of maxima and minima, but right now it has strangely been "quiet" for a while. I will predict a very cold winter ; )

MerseyRed · « **Reply #19 on:** November 13, 2008, 09:18:13 PM »

Some more useful sites

Anglo-Australian Observatory
Heavens Above if you want to know where everything is
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Nasa Launch Schedule if you want to know when the next shuttle launch is
Occultation Prediction Software if you want to watch a star or planet disappear behind the moon or reapear from behind the moon, this free software will do the predictions for you, and it's free

SpaceWeather.com is an aurora likely to happen?
ISS orbital elements
The Interactive NGC Catalog Online very useful
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
Satellite tracking software (free)
Messier Objects from the Digitized Sky Survey
Celestia free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
The Liverpool Astronomical Society

Scratchy · « **Reply #20 on:** November 23, 2008, 10:30:42 PM »

Astronomy Picture of the Day - a new often stunning pic every day, plus a short description of what you are looking at. Superb website.
EurekAlert - news site of the AAAS

Graeme · « **Reply #21 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:06:05 PM »

No posts on here for a while, anybody have any new sites to share?

Something Else · « **Reply #22 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:10:26 PM »

Quote from: Graeme on April 21, 2009, 07:06:05 PM

No posts on here for a while, anybody have any new sites to share?

There are a few scientific podcasts I am enjoying.

Nature, and science weekly from the guardian are very good

I have just listened to my first Dr Karl one and that is good, though more suitable for those that are not massively into science, I found it a bit easy and weak, but then i knew a number of the topics they spoke about, but look forward to the ones on areas i am not used to.
Listened to my first science in action and liked that too

Also downloaded, but not yet listened to....

digital planet
science magazine
Cern
Naked scientist
naked scientist question of the week

little_fee · « **Reply #23 on:** May 2, 2009, 06:02:45 PM »

the main articles of this usually get posted in The Guardian on Saturdays, but lots of other good bits and pieces on the site:

http://www.badscience.net/

And would recommend his book, also called Bad Science, which covers some interesting science topics which the media have managed to screw up over the past few years:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/dp/000728487X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241283632&sr=8-1

wacko · « **Reply #24 on:** October 12, 2009, 03:30:28 PM »

A very interesting website with a few great podcasts:

http://www.howstuffworks.com

The podcasts are here:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/hsw-podcast.htm

I've only listened to the Stuff You Should Know and Stuff You Missed in History Class podcasts: they're both great; don't know about the others.

In the multimedia vein, TED talks are great, too. You can download them as MP3 or subscribe to the videos.

http://www.ted.com/talks

There are some real gems in there, such as
The Real Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives,
Why People Believe Strange Things,
and any of Robert Full's insect-based robot videos.

Evo1975 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 12, 2009, 03:39:32 PM »

Some brilliant sites listed on here, spent most of the day lookin through them, very interesting. Got fuck all work done though.

Bartholomew Appleby · « **Reply #26 on:** August 18, 2010, 12:29:43 AM »

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html and http://atomicrockets.posterous.com/

1st one is a website by a guy who went looking for a reference site for authors who wanted to write science fiction and get their facts straight, couldn't find one and so made his own. 2nd one is his blog where he posts articles on the same theme.

Gene · « **Reply #27 on:** October 23, 2010, 06:39:28 AM »

http://www.livescience.com/

Great site for science news.

finchie · « **Reply #28 on:** October 23, 2010, 07:41:11 PM »

http://www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=52
Yesterday 35 sites were shortlisted for Physics.org websites of 2010 awards
The categories are:
* Best blog
* Best news site / online magazine
* Best podcast
* Best Q&A / ask the expert site
* Best revision site
* Best kids’ site
* President’s prize (anything which doesn’t fall under any of the categories above)

If you subscribe to this thread then you may be interested to have a browse through the contenders.

noname · « **Reply #29 on:** March 12, 2011, 10:39:09 AM »

One for "Climate Change/Global Warming"

http://www.ipcc.ch/

yea i am obsessed

John C · « **Reply #30 on:** May 10, 2011, 11:45:09 PM »

http://www.spacetelescope.org/
not sure if this is already up.

Tepid water · « **Reply #31 on:** June 20, 2011, 10:58:59 PM »

http://www.periodicvideos.com/

Great chemistry website (no really, it's great)

miss_heather · « **Reply #32 on:** February 17, 2012, 01:33:17 PM »

Have a look at this facebook timeline, which predicts what will happen with facebook by 2025. Very interesting: http://ow.ly/97ZiP

gaztop08 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 13, 2012, 02:10:48 AM »

Havent seen this one posted.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/

The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public

G a r y · « **Reply #34 on:** June 7, 2012, 01:00:35 PM »

I've always found http://www.futuretimeline.net/ fascinating

John C · « **Reply #35 on:** August 6, 2012, 11:58:34 PM »

Quote from: G a r y on June 7, 2012, 01:00:35 PM

I've always found http://www.futuretimeline.net/ fascinating

Unbelievable predictions them mate.

Gifted Right Foot · « **Reply #36 on:** October 4, 2012, 04:43:14 AM »

http://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience - It's actually called I Fucking Love Science.

For anyone that is on facebook this is a pretty awesome page to like. It does include a lot of science joke memes (which most are pretty funny) but it also uploads a heap of interesting articles and updates in science.