Science Courses and Tutorials

A four-step guide for students and for faculty by Ann McNeal, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College. Reading research papers ("primary articles") is partly a matter of experience and skill, and partly learning the specific vocabulary of a field. First of all, DON'T PANIC! If you approach it step by step, even an impossible-looking paper can be understood.

MarineBio.org is an online website all about marine biology research and education. Learn about the marine animals and plants by species, about marine environments including the oceans, estuaries, and wetlands. Find research journals and links to research organizations.

A comprehensive geology education website that includes a plate tectonics tour, a geology dictionary, geology job listings, a geologic time scale, links to satellite images, geology field camps, and more.

VisLab is an Access Grid site, enabling multi-site, multimedia meetings. Explore visualizations of NCAR computer models to learn how models are used to understand phenomena of the Earth system from global climate to the behavior of wildfires. Take a look inside the Visualization Lab and learn how it works. Find out how 3-D stereo visualizations are created and projected.

An Introduction to Genomics: The Human Genome and Beyond: What is genomics? Find out about the subject, its applications, and how it works with DNA. How Sequencing is Done: Learn about the steps in JGI's process of whole-genome shotgun sequencing. A Historical Timeline: Cracking the Code of Life: The history of genomics, from Darwin to the completion of the Human Genome Project. Genomics Poster: Get your own copy of JGI's poster, which explains genomics and its history. Created by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.

Welcome to the Nucleus, a website designed for physics and astronomy undergrads. There are all sorts of resources for research and learnding, plus cool links and discussion forums for talking with fellow students. Topics include: intro physics, modern physics, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Almost every culture on Earth includes an ancient flood story. Details vary, but the basic plot is the same: Deluge kills all but a lucky few. Columbia University geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman wondered what could explain the preponderance of flood legends. Their theory: As the Ice Age ended and glaciers melted, a wall of seawater surged from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea. Maritime explorer Bob Ballard is combing the floor of the Black Sea in search of the remains of ancient dwellings, which would buttress a new theory that a cataclysmic flood struck the region some 7,000 years agoswelling the sea and eventually becoming the basis of the Noah story.

Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time. What is evolution and how does it work? How does evolution impact my life? What is the evidence for evolution? What is the history of evolutionary theory?

What microbes are and what microbiologists do, plus the weekly news digest in microbiology.

By Dr. Richard Bader, Professor of Chemistry, McMaster University. The beginning student of chemistry must have a knowledge of the theory which forms the basis for our understanding of chemistry and he must acquire this knowledge before he has the mathematical background required for a rigorous course of study in quantum mechanics. The present approach is designed to meet this need by stressing the physical or observable aspects of the theory through an extensive use of the electronic charge density.

In our site you will discover facts about our planet, its complex patterns of biomes, plants, and animals, and how climates ultimately determine the biomes of our Earth. This site was created to teach students the power of the Internet as a tool for both communication and learning, and how to use this tool while at the same time express their scientific/environmental knowledge in a fun way. Students have individually researched different attributes of major climate regions (biomes). Topics covered include the various animals and plants of these regions, the climates, and other specific biome characteristics. Our hope is that this site will be up-dated, changed and improved by each succeeding 6th grade class for many years.

Welcome and thank you for visiting the Ultimate Tree-Ring web pages, designed to be the ULTIMATE source for information on the science of Dendrochronology. I've designed these pages to be easily understood by people at all levels of education, from elementary school students to high school students, from first grade teachers to college professors. You won't find anything fancy here - I want these pages to be readable, enjoyable, and (most of all) educational.

A cute music video about the day they discovered pi.

The most remarkable places on Earth are also the most threatened. These are the Hotspots: the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on Earth.

An interactive game simulating cell behavior based on four simple rules: lonliness, overcrowding, reproduction, and statis.

An interactive multimedia tutorial to the brain and the machines trying to model its functions.

Welcome to the Molecular Expressions website featuring our acclaimed photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of optical microscopy. We are going where no microscope has gone before by offering one of the Web's largest collections of color photographs taken through an optical microscope (commonly referred to as "photo-micro-graphs"). Visit our Photo Gallery for an introductory selection of images covering just about everything from beer and ice cream to integrated circuits and ceramic superconductors.

New Yorkers go about unaware of what is happening just beneath their feet: Power pulses, information flies, and steam flows. The citys infrastructure starts just below street level, but it doesnt stop there.

Should NASA invest nearly a million dollars in an obscure Russian scientist's antigravity machine (it has failed every test and would violate the most fundamental laws of nature)? Should the Patent and Trademark Office have issued Patent 6,362,718 for a physically impossible motionless electromagnetic generator (which is supposed to snatch free energy from a vacuum)? There is, alas, no scientific claim so preposterous that a scientist cannot be found to vouch for it. And many such claims end up in a court of law after they have cost some gullible person or corporation a lot of money. How are juries to evaluate them? How can you recognize questionable scientific claims? What are the warning signs of fraud? Here are seven indicators that a scientific claim lies well outside the bounds of rational scientific discourse. Of course, they are only warning signs -- even a claim with several of the signs could be legitimate.

A huge listing of links to sites related to the genome. Includes: Genome Projects Monitor Pages; Genome Sequencing Centers; General Genome Databases; Genome Analysis; Databases; Other Genome Projects; Infectious Diseases; Genomics-Biotech companies; General Databases; Protein Family Databases; Biocomputing servers; Sequence-Reference Retrieval Systems; Sequence Homology - Allignments; Motifs -Domains; Metabolic Pathways; Protein Structure; Phylogenetic analysis; Protein Interactions; Gene; DNA - RNA