The X-Change Files is sponsored by the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a program of the National Academy of Sciences that connects the entertainment industry with top scientists and engineers. The X-Change Files explores the intersections of science and entertainment, regularly taking a look at the ways in which science is portrayed in film and television.
committed to providing stimulating, original content and presentation, with over 1,500,000 pages covering the vast ideological spectrums of space, science, health, and technology.
An online news source featuring the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more from North America's leading research universities.
The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is poised to be the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, DataONE will ensure preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data. DataONE will transcend domain boundaries and make biological data available from the genome to the ecosystem; make environmental data available from atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic sources; provide secure and long-term preservation and access; and engage scientists, land-managers, policy makers, students, educators, and the public through logical access and intuitive visualizations.
EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology.
BSIR -- the predecessor of Government Reports Announcements and Index -- is being digitized and made available on the Web through a project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. So far, only a few issues from 1946 have been digitized.
The Science and Civilisation in China series is the work of Joseph Needham and an international team of collaborators, and is published by Cambridge University Press in seven volumes.
CLIO's SDS Controlled Vocabulary page for National Climatic Data Center's Archive Branch. It is the intent of this page to list acronyms, abbreviations, and controlled vocabulary you will find on NCDC's SDS website; and also to provide indexed links that will guide to all of the associated NCDC-SDS pages related to listed SDS and other controlled vocabularies.
REACTOME is a free, online, open-source, curated pathway database encompassing many areas of human biology. Information is authored by expert biological researchers, maintained by the Reactome editorial staff and cross-referenced to a wide range of standard biological databases.
TRAIL is a Greater Western Library Alliance initiative lead by the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Center for Research Libraries and other interested supporting agencies to identify, digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
The Scientific Drilling Database (SDDB) is the repository for data from operations of the International Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) and associated projects. It is operated by GeoForschungsZentrum Data Centre and by ICDP's Operational Support Group (OSG). To
The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions.
The flat earth and geocentric world are examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods. Can you name your favorite example and for extra credit why it was believed to be true? Richard Thaler.
by Robert T. Carroll. The Skeptic's Dictionary is a website and a book. Each features definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, and provides a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on things supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. Dozens of topics in logic, perception, science, and philosophy are also covered to help explain the appeal and popularity of occult beliefs and to provide a guide for critical thinking.
The Khan Academy is a "not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. " Designed as a type of educational tool and a living archive, the site contains over 2100 videos that include algebra lessons, calculus sessions, cosmology, and developmental math.