Links

Last updated: Ferbuary 6, 2008.

These are some websites we like. Would you like to exchange links with us? If you have a useful site that would be of interest to our readers, please send us details and we'll add it here (or on one of our main article pages). Also, please tip us off if you find any similar sites you think we should include here.

Science and technology

• Howstuffworks: Lots of detailed how-it-works articles.
• NASA Explores: Educational material from NASA.
• The Naked Scientists: A fun and friendly site that strips away the duff dullness and makes science fun again.
• Steve Spangler's Science: The official blog site: An adult who knows how to make science fun for kids? Whatever next?
• How Products are Made: a huge collection of articles covering everything from air bags to temporary tattoos.
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: An interesting collection of science and technology articles, mainly covering notable inventions.
• Planet Science: Science fun and resources for under 11s and their parents.
• Fear of Physics: No need tobe afraid! Physics explained clearly and simply with computer graphics and animations.
• Students' Classroom: A handy site from the National Center for Educational Statistics, includes a brilliant create a graph site to help you graph results from experiments and coursework.

Inventions

• Yahooligans! Inventors: Lots of links to sites about inventors.
• Invention at Play: Inventing is creative and fun!
• The Secret Life of Machines: A funky cartoon website from Tim Hunkin.

"Ask a scientist" sites

• Science question of the week: From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (with an emphasis on space questions).
• Ask a scientist: A huge list of questions, on all scientific topics, dating back to 1991.
• Science questions and answers: From Scientific American.

Make and do your own stuff

• Bizarre Stuff: You Can Make in Your Kitchen: Some truly inspired practical projects you can make at home: "This site is a museum of classic home science projects. It is not so much meant to be 'how to' or educational, but more of a celebration of early to mid 20th century home experimentation and pop science illustration."
• School science: fun experiments and demonstrations that are suitable for a school science lab or possible at home: Please take a careful note of the the safety instructions on this page and ask a teacher or parent for advice if you are under 18.
• Surfing scientist: impress your friends and scare your family with these whacky science tricks from Australia's ABC channel.
• OneSwitch: Fun enabling technology and ideas: A really great site that shows you how to "hack" various things so they work better for disabled people. Of course, if manufacturers gave that problem some thought in the first place...
• Makezine: Online home of Make magazine and a blog that reviews neat activities and technology projects from other websites.

Contests and competitions

• First LEGO League: Real-world challenges for students in a fun international contest!

Museums and History

• American Museum of Photography: How photography developed.
• Chemical Achievers: Great people and discoveries from the history of chemistry.
• Computer History Museum: The world's biggest museum of computers.
• IEEE Virtual Museum: History of communications technology.
• Natural History Museum, London, England
• New York Hall of Science
• Nobel E-Museum: Information relating to discoveries by Nobel Prize winners
• Singapore Science Centre: Gotta love science!
• Science Museum, London, England

Science and technology picture libraries

• Great Images in NASA: A selection of NASA's best photos.
• Science Photo Library: Stock photos on most scientific topics with a useful keywords search.
• Science and Society: Historical photos of science and technology.
• NASA Image Exchange: Index of NASA photos.
• Oxford Illustrated Science Encyclopedia: Lots of free clip-art pictures for your own school science projects.
• Dorling Kindersley Clip Art: Some more free clip art for personal, non-commercial use only.

Magazines

• The Future Times: Promising "Your tomorrow today", an interesting online science magazine for teenagers!
• National Geographic
• New Scientist
• Popular Science
• Science
• Science News Online
• Scientific American

Reference sites

• Online conversion: A brilliant site! Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions..

Careers

• Engineer Girl: Careers in engineering and technology for girls.
• NOISE: New Outlooks in Science and Engineering: Cool jobs in science, engineering, and technology.