Science & technology

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Science tools | Natural world | Pure science | Mathematics | Space | Engineering

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Science and Mathematics, Biological Sciences or Science from Oxford Reference Online [24/7]

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How Stuff Works

Clear descriptions of the workings of all kinds of technical, scientific, and social phenomena [Title index of all articles].

BBC Science & Nature

Information supporting and complementing the content of the BBC's current and previous scientific programming.

New Scientist

Current scientific news and information from the prestigious and popular science journal. Also lists articles from earlier years on topics of current concern.

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Science tools

Scirus

Search engine listing exclusively scientific resources, from international science publishers Elsevier. Includes some subscriber-only data sources.

The Constants and Equations Pages

Information on scientific constants, tables, units and conversions, and related topics.

Scientific Calculator

A fully functional scientific calculator you can operate via the web.

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Natural world

Arkive

"A Noah's Ark for the Internet era": information, images and multimedia concerning the world's endangered wildlife.

Birds

Avibase provides lists of birds found in countries from around the world giving pictures, names, descriptions and numbers of species. Birdforum is an online community for those interested in birds where people can share what they have seen with pictures and messages. 

Postcode Plants Database

Records of plants that are native to local areas throughout the UK, describing and illustrating many. Also includes useful information about fauna native to the UK.

Plants for a Future

Major database of plants having medicinal, culinary, horticultural, or other uses. Includes detailed information on propogation and cultivation, and links to other sources of information on the web.

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Pure science

Internet Chemist and Internet Physicist

'Teach-yourself' tutorials on Internet information skills for those studying chemistry or physics. Part of a wide range of subject-specific tutorials from the Virtual Training Suite.

Links for Chemists

Gateway to links for chemists in both academic and industrial spheres, including profiles of organisations, colleges and companies; jobs and careers; and professional encyclopedias and journals. Part of the WWW Virtual Library project originated by Tim Berners-Lee.

Periodic Table of Videos

An explanatory video about each of the elements - featuring experiments, examples and big hair!

Chemical Elements.com

Interactive periodic table, which can be configured to display the different characteristics of elements, or different elements by group.

Physics Web

Gateway to Internet resources compiled by the Institute of Physics.

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Maths

Internet Mathematician

A 'teach-yourself' tutorial on Internet information skills for those studying maths. Part of a wide range of subject-specific tutorials from the Virtual Training Suite.

Intute mathematics

Internet resource catalogue for mathematics [formerly known as EEVL Mathematics].

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Space

NASA

Comprehensive web of information from the official North American Space Agency.

MyStarsLive

An interactive star chart allowing you to view the night sky from any location in the world.

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Engineering

Intute Engineering

UK Gateway to Quality Engineering Information on the Internet.

MatWeb

Database about materials used in manufacturing, including information about properties, trade names and manufacturers.

How Products Are Made

Detailed descriptions of how manufactured products work, and how they are made, with an alphabetical index and a search box.

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Computers & the Internet

Environment & geography

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Statistics, figures & conversion tables