Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Free Sci Tech Web Sites for March 2005

New Scientist: special reports on key topics in science and technology

http://www/newscientist.com/specials.ns

Tied to the periodical of the same name, this site contains a long list of free science and technology hot topic news articles that are updated almost daily. Also provided are Web links to other great sites for science and technology.

NASA/IPAC extragalactic database

http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/

The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) provides a searchable database of information relevant to astronomy and astrophysics including journal articles, abstracts, images, and a glossary of terms. The amount of astronomical information available is enormous as it contains basic data for >7.5M extragalactic sources and gives >2.5M bibliographic references.

Avibase

http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp

Hosted by Bird Studies Canada, this database contains >1.5M records for species and subspecies names in English, Latin and 7 European languages. The records provide links to Web sites with related information.

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