Links to the Best Chemistry sites on the Web

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science
are not found because they are useful; they are found because
it was possible to find them.
                                                                                                          -- Robert Oppenheimer
 
WSC Chemistry
Chemistry!
Safety
Journals at WSC
 
ACS
Environment
Jobs
Space, TFF
 
Interesting Stuff
The Brain
LDL
Chemistry - Various
 
 
 
     
         

 
 
 
Chemistry

PSIgate- Physical Sciences Information gateway.

Science's Next Wave - A weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. The Next Wave is published by SCIENCE and AAAS.

Nobel E-Museum - Nobel e-Museum offers information on all 736 Prize Winners to date, the Nobel Organization, Alfred Nobel, and Nobel events, as well as educational material and games.

Detailed Periodic Table - An interactive periodic table that lists most everything about the elements.

Cancer  Resources - National Cancer Institutes web site.

What's that Stuff? - Descriptions for every day items from silly putty to fireworks.

The National Academies -

A Chemical View of History - Investigate chemical discoveries and read about the remarkable people who made them.


Publications

ChemWeb: Literature - ChemWeb.com is a unique combination of a wide range of information relevant to anyone in chemical research and the chemicals industry.

ACS Journals at WSC - Journal indexes at WSC Conn Library

Free ACS Safety Publications

C & E News - Chemical and Engineering News, an excellent resource for current science news

APS Archive - Physical review online archive
safety

MSDS- Oxford University Chemical and Other Safety Information

Safety 2 - Chemical & Engineering News Safety Letters

Safety 3- Chemistry Laboratory Information Profiles (CLIPs)

Safety 4 - Free ACS Safety Publications








ACS

ACS - American Chemical Society Home Page

C & E News - Chemical and Engineering News, an excellent resource for current science news

ACS Sioux Valley Section

Chemistry - Chemistry is a tabloid published for ACS Members, Student Affiliates, and those interested in learning more about the chemical sciences and the ACS




Chemistry
- Various


Units - Units resemble sports officials: the only time you really pay attention to them when something stupid happens.---Steve Mirsky in Scientific American,
 August 2000, p. 96.

Symbols - More symbols than you need.

A Gallery of Gemstones - View gorgeous gems and learn about the chemical properties of nearly 200 different types of minerals

Flavors "R' Us - Add zest to your life with this lively primer on the social, culinary, and medical uses of spices through the ages

Science Hobbyist - a variety of cool and weird science topics.

About.com Chemistry - A web based index

Terms and definitions - index on About.com

Find Chemical Properties - A portal to free and subscription databases

Polymers

Teaching Resources

Molecule of the Month

NMR and IR Spectroscopy

Coordination Chemistry

Analytical chemistry

Analytical Springboard

Attend the Anti-Nobels - The Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded for research that "cannot or should not be reproduced," prove scientists have a sense of humor.

Science from the BBC

Scientific Writing - Submission guidelines for organic chemistry journals 

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor - The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) operated at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) from 1982 to 1997. TFTR set a number of world records, including a plasma temperature of 510 million degrees centigrade -- the highest ever produced in a laboratory, and well beyond the 100 million degrees required for commercial fusion.


Stuff

Maps - National Geographic maps and geography

Money 1 and Money 2 - Places to put that science knowledge to use and get paid for it!

Visit the Land of the Lost - This paleo field guide lets you look up dinosaurs by era, location, name - even what they looked like.

Jokes - A variety of links to science joke web pages

Radar - Latest weather radar image for our area

Free Books - Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books. 

Playing with Time - Watch what happens when ordinary events, suck as blinking are radically sped up or slowed down.

Time - An NIST Physics Laboratory Presentation.  The Evolution of Time Measurement through the Ages

The Story of Days - Explore the origins of the 365-day calendar and alternate systems

Go behind 'A Brief History of Time' - Cosmoligist Stephen Hawking tells his life story, reprints his lectures, even shares some photos.

History - In calendar format, an excellent start for any history buff.

Engines - Animated drawings of every major type of engine

Explore the Technology Behind Movies - These colorful Flash animation explain step-by-step how movies are recorded and played back.

The X-Prize - The X PRIZE is a $10,000,000 prize to jumpstart the space tourism industry through competition between the most talented entrepreneurs and rocket experts in the world. The $10 Million cash prize will be awarded to the first team that:
       - Privately finances, builds & launches a spaceship, able to carry three
          people to 100 kilometers
        - Returns safely to Earth 
        - Repeats the launch with the same ship within 2 weeks 

The Center for Bits and Atoms - MIT's new Center for Bits and Atoms is an unprecedented initiative to look past the end of the Digital Revolution in order to bring together the best features of the bits of new digital worlds with the atoms of our physical world. It is here at this interface that many of the most compelling opportunities lay for the future intellectual, social, and economic impact of information technologies.

Launching the war on sleep - To learn more about sleep disorders, go to the NIHs sleep disorder research page.
Space

Hubble Telescope Images - Chances are you haven't seen what NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope sees. Hubble sees the raw beauty of the universe from above Earth's atmosphere and sends back a portrait of the universe in exquisite detail. Here's your chance to leave the ground for a while... and see what Hubble sees. 

The 9 Planets - is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.

Virtual Mission to Mars - Take a trip to the red planet by visitying this simulated Mars colony

Keep Track of Our Little Neighbors - Colorful graphics pinpoint all known asteroids, and links lead to extensive background information.

Planetary Photojournal  - Search NASA's galleries for images

The Moon - See gorgeous close-ups of the moon's surface

The Solar and Heliospheric Laboratory displays dazzling images of the sun, planets, and comets

The Cosmos in a Differnt Light - Discove how astronomers use various wavelengths of light to probe the depths of the universe.

Catching Some Rays on Mars - Follow the progress of the Mars Odyssey mission, click on "Solar System" and go to any of the planets.

Gardening in Space - Learn more about all of NASAs research areas here

See Earth Like a Space Alien - NASA's lavishly illustrated Earth Observatory allows you to take on an outsiders perspective, looking down on our planets atmosphere, oceans, land, and life.

Travel Through the Solar System - This all inclusive site presents facts and photos of the planets, along with a does of mythology

NASA's projects - In this area you will find the programs and activities of NASA organized within the five Strategic Enterprises.

Bad Astronomy - Misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing "hoax"

Meteorites and Their Properties - How to distinguish them from ordinary rocks

Sky Watch - Want to know when a spacecraft will be flying over your city?  If conditions are right, you can see satellites and other spacecraft -- such as the space shuttle or the International Space Station -- clearly from the ground.
Use sky watch to find out when and where to look.

Exploring Mars - Third NASA mission aims to map planet's elements.

JPL   and   Sky and Telescope - Calendars of celestial events

European Space Agency - The ESA's missions, photogalleries and resources.

Fly Over America - TerraFly changes the way you view your world. Simply enter an address, and this system will show actual views, down to 1 meter resolution.

Find Your Place in Space - Here you can see current positions of the planets in the solar system, view the Earth from above, and get a custom map showing the night sky for any time and location

A Comet Black as Coal - Comet Borrelly flyby pictures and the Deep Space 1 mission

The Study of worlds outside the solar system

Neutron Stars - Coleman Miller at the University of Maryland has written a nice overview of neutron stars

Black Holes - A tutorial on Black holes

Survey the Night Sky at any Hour - Browse through high resolution visual, infrared, radio, and X-ray images, just like the ones scientists use!




Environment

EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency home page

EPA - AIR - Air pollution, clean air, and air quality information is provided by the U.S. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR)

Ozone- View a map of the ozone layer by location and day

Ozone 2 -  U.S EPA ozone site

Ozone 3 - TOMS, Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

Water  - Monitor Every Drop of Water

Real Time Air Pollution -  CAMNET brings you live pictures and corresponding air quality conditions from scenic urban and rural vistas in the Northeast.

Cough...Choke...Gasp... Know the daily air quality where you live


The Brain ‘Facts compel me to conclude that my brain was never formed for much thinking’  – Charles Darwin

Stimulate Your Senses - A great way to learn how your brain translates sensory nerve impulses into vivid sights, sounds, and smells.

Burrow Into the Brain - Browse hundreds of links to topics ranging from criminal justice to the nature of intelligence.

Fear Research

The Brain by the BBC- Test yourself... Reading Faces, Disgust, Morals, Lonely hearts, Personality, Sensation seeking, Perfectionism, Self control, Careers, What sex is your brain?
 
Home To Dave
Email
Wayne State College