Greatest Science websites of 2006

[Chaos' lil bro Order]

Greetings all and happy holidays!

I thought it would be nice if we could generate a list of the best science websites for 2006. I hope you all can add some and we can have a very nice list to explore in 2007!

Here are a few that I've found. I'm trying to include only the creme de la creme since there are many wonderful sites Also, I'll leave a short blurb about the site's extra special features that make it so great. This will make it nice and easy for people to browse them efficiently.


***BEST PHYSICS SITES OF 2006***

1) Best science Forums - Physics forums
Hands down the best out there. Best experts, best interface, best topics. www.hereyousillygoose.com[/URL]


2) Best physics resource - Hyperphysics
Its unique bubble tree structure means you can find any answer to almost all areas of physics in under 10 seconds. Fully referenced. Always adding updates as discoveries are made.[url]http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html[/url]


3) Best site on Vision - Webvision
A project by the University of Utah to put all the leading research on vision in one simple site. Amazing photographs of the retina, cones, rods, axons and dendrites. Learn about the most (perhaps) complicated system in the human body. [url]http://webvision.med.utah.edu/[/url]


4) Best site on optics for beginners - Molecular Expressions
Built by Nikon, this site has tons of interactive java tutorials, mindboggling STM, EM, and other microscope photographs.[url]http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/microscopy/simplemagnification/index.html[/url]


5) Best scientific paper reference site - Arxiv
The jewel of researching white papers online. Simple, fast, accurate.[url]http://arxiv.org/[/url]


6) Best astronomical body database - Nasa's Extragalactic Database
Millions of heavenly body's catalogued with photographs. Amazing search filters. Fully referenced.[url]http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/[/url]


7) Best cosmology tutorial - Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
Amazing for beginners and experts alike. Simple, concise, accurate information on the universe and recent discoveries.[url]http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm[/url]



Those are the best one's I can think of, PLEASE ADD MORE! Have a nice night cuddling up to your mrs. and your eggnog!

 

[Rach3]

5) Best reference site - Arxiv
The jewel of researching white papers online. Simple, fast, accurate.http://arxiv.org/

Huh? 10 character limit

 

[DeadWolfe]

Did anyone eslse actually click on www.hereyousillygoose.com?[/URL] Man do I feel silly.

 

[Chaos' lil bro Order]

Did anyone eslse actually click on www.hereyousillygoose.com?[/URL] Man do I feel silly.[/QUOTE]

Haha that's funny, was the site taken?

 

[Teegvin]

I really like this http://webvision.med.utah.edu/anatomy.html .

 

[Dr.Brain]

I generally refer to Wikipedia , but some of the articles are misleading , all in all I found it quite concise and informative.

 

[skywolf]

how bout www.physicsforums.com i hear that's good

 

[marcusl]

I'll add two:

Physics cartoons of S. Harris
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/galphys2c.htm"

Source of always interesting lectures
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/activities/scientific/QT-LECTURES/"

 

[neutrino]

This is not a "physics site" per se... but XKCD(.com) ROCKS!
http://xkcd.com/c171.html

It's certainly been the best site I found this year.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Physics Forums is simply invaluable for novices like me and no doubt for the experts.

Great idea for a thread, btw.

Here's one I particularly like for calculus and trigonometry. I have a few Assignments and maths papers that I don't have the answers too, so this is really handy to check if I'm doing them properly. It's essentially doubled the number of calculus problems I can work through. Good for beginners.

www.calc101.com

 

[ranger]

This site has so many resources, its unbelievable:

http://www.101science.com/

 

[Bladibla]

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

Wolfram science websites are up there with PF.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Astronomy picture of the day, and

http://epod.usra.edu/archive.php3

Earth science picture of the day.

 

[neutrino]

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

Wolfram science websites are up there with PF.

It's a good site, but it is not fully developed like Mathworld. Many of the articles in that site either don't exist or are incomplete/not very clear.

 

[Danger]

I don't think this is the kind of site that you meant, but for a very good overview of a tremendous range of technical subjects, I really like 'How Stuff Works'.