Science & Technology
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
Access to this premium web-based content is one of the privileges of holding an OSL (Ocean State Libraries) or Lincoln Public Library Card.
Online periodic table of elements.
This site traces the cosmic origin and evolution of all matter and energy starting with the Big Bang.
"Offering free comprehensive basic electronics tutorials in amplifiers, antennas, ham radio, filters, oscillators, power supply, receivers, test equipment, transmitters, radio design and electronics design. Links to data sheets and electronics reference and text books."
How Stuff Works
This site explains the mechanics of everyday things.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Provides information inventions and inventors, including biographies and pictures. Searchable.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
This government agency provides access to a variety of informational resources, including charting and navigation (such as nautical charts and coastal survey maps), climate, coasts, fisheries, oceans, and weather.
This directory provides access to several links. The index divides the links into the following categories: Physical and Chemical Sciences, Earth and Space Sciences, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering Sciences, etc. The K-12 Science section is particularly noteworthy.
Scientific American: Ask the Experts
Check out the interesting questions people submit to the scientific experts at Scientific American. Previous questions are arranged by topic.
Science.gov searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance
"A web site devoted to areas of science where computer simulations are at the forefront of discovery." The site uses computer simulations to explain fluid flows, surfaces and membranes, why a dam cracks, and what is a crackling noise.
US Naval Observatory Data Services
The Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory computes, from fundamental astronomical reference data, the position, brightness, and other observable characteristics of celestial bodies, as well as the circumstances of astronomical phenomena.