Sciences Categories

1 Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

http://www.harcourt.com/dictionary/

This dictionary allows the user to browse or search over 130,000 terms in the following fields of science: engineering, life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, mathematics and computer science, and social sciences.

2 The Exploratoriums Ten Cool Science Sites!

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html

Every month this site puts up listings of ten new science sites that they have reviewed and thought worthy of investigation.

3 Statistical Reports of U.S. Science and Engineering

http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/stats.htm

A bunch of surveys, reports, and statistics on the sciences which describe the work force and current educational trends in science.

4 Important Historical Inventions and Inventors

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/patent/srs136_text.html

This site shows date, inventor, and nationality of "Important Historical Inventions and Inventors" which include Calculating Machines and Computing, Cloth and Clothing, Communication, Construction, Electricity and Electronics, Food and Agriculture, Medicine and Biotechnology, Industrial Materials, Scientific Instrument and Devices, Transportation and Energy, and Warfare.

5 The Nobel Foundation

http://www.nobel.se/

The Official Site of the Nobel Foundation" is searchable, and includes a timeline.

6 National Science Foundation

http://www.nsf.gov

The government site for NSF institution promoting scientific discovery.

7 Helping Your Child Learn Science

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Science

This is an entire on-line book devoted to science experiments and other activities that parents and children can do together. Its introduction is a bit dated. The author refers to an initiative, America 2000, "announced by President Bush earlier this year," said year being 1991. But the experiments and other information are well-presented.

8 Science Service Historical Image Collection

http://americanhistory.si.edu/scienceservice/

The Science Service historical image collection represents twentieth-century scientific research consisting of images and their original captions as they appeared in period publications.

9 Science at NASA

http://science.nasa.gov/

Studies include space science, earth science, and biological and physical sciences.

10 The Exploratorium.edu

http://www.exploratorium.edu

Museum of Science Art and Human Perception from San Francisco.

12 Princeton Article on Bigfoot

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/bigfoot.html

Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is purportedly an ape-like creature that inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. The term "sasquatch" is an anglicized derivative of the word "Sésquac" which means "wild man" in a Salish Native American language.