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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS
Here is one-stop-shopping for science current events.

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Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center™ is designed to meet your science research needs, providing full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.
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A complete reference database containing thousands of entries covering almost every field of science. Categories include: Diagrams, Definitions, Biographies, Essays, and Experiments.
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Find up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. This is a great place to find clear explanations of opposing points of view! (Funded by the Central Massachusetts Regional Library System.)
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Gale PowerSearch searches many databases at once for articles from magazines, journals, newspapers and reference books. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners)
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ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Grolier Online: New Book of Popular Science
Latest in-depth science, health, and technology research reference and news.
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WEB SITES

Chembalancer
A fun way to practice balancing equations.

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering. Provides news from many branches of science.

Physics Classroom
A high school physics tutorial with a tutorial and multimedia physics studio to help you visualize difficult concepts.

Conductive Valley Game
In this game, set in year 2025, you are to furnish and decorate a house. You can use all new exciting materials based on conductive polymer technology.

Science Fair Ideas
A page of great links to help you choose and plan a project. SCIENCE FAIR IDEAS FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

How Stuff Works
Find clear, reliable explanations of how everything around us actually works.

Welcome to Matter
A presentation explaining structure, properties, and states of matter from The Tech Museum of Innovation.

Liquids: Thick and Thin
Want to know about viscosity? Ketchup? Cornstarch? Find out here!

Water Science
Everything you ever wanted to know about water from the USGS.

Water Structure and Behavior
From Martin Chaplin, Professor of Applied Science at London South Bank University.

Fun Facts About the U.S. Mint
Here's a brief chronology of the metal composition of the cent coin (penny).

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Information on weather and climate, fisheries, satellites, the ocean, coastal areas, and mapping and navigation. There are also news articles, special features, and pictures, maps, and data available to download. Especially for teachers and students.

MadSci Network
The laboratory that never sleeps and answers YOUR science questions.

How Things Work
Professor Louis A. Bloomfield of the University of Virginia explains it all.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
This site contains information on current NASA missions (including the Mars rover), historic missions and NASA research. Photographs, streaming video, and other multimedia presentations are available, and there are special sections for students and teachers.

Invention Dimension
All about inventions and inventors, with help for aspiring inventors, from M.I.T.

The Science of Hockey
From the Science Learning Network.

Chemical Elements
Everything you need for your Element Project!

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updated 07/29/2010


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