Links
Here are some links we hope you will find useful and interesting.
Science ---
Math ---
Computer Science ---
Other
Science
- Siemens Westinghouse Competition
- Synopsys Championship
- regional science fair
- Rules for the Science Bowl
- Read them well.
- Competition Links
- Science Bowl
- Wondercup
- Jets Team
- Science Olympiad
- Physics Bowl
- Physics Olympiad
- Chemistry Olympiad
- Biology Olympiad
- Scientific American
- An excellent source of science news and information.
- LiveScience.com
- Science, Technology, Health, and Environmental News.
- SPACE.com
- From satellites to stars - astronomy-related news.
- National Geographic
- Inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888.
- HowStuffWorks
- Learn how everything works.
- Quizlet Practice (you need to set up a Quizlet account)
- Astronomy Practice
- Earth Science Practice
- Chemistry Links
- International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- American Chemical Society
- Chemistry Animations
- Chemistry Geek
- ChemmyBear
- Periodic Table
- Periodic Table Posters and
Alkali Metal in Water Explosions
- Chemistry Review
- Online Textbook
- Another Online Textbook
- Physics Links
- Physics to Go
- Physics.org
- Physics simulations
- The Physics Teacher
- Online Physics Textbook
- HyperPhysics - Online Textbook
- Open Yale Course
- Astronomy Links
- NASA
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Learn astronomy while admiring the beauty and majesty of our universe.
- Astronomy Magazine
- An excellent magazine about astronomy.
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- NSSDC - Lunar and Planetary Science
- The
Nine Eight Planets
- All about our local corner of the universe, the solar system.
- Stars
and Constellations
- A comprehensive resource, including information about most bright stars and all 88 constellations.
- The Constellations and Their Stars
- Even more information.
- Messier Objects
and NGC Objects
- The most interesting deep-sky objects.
- The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
- A complete list of every extrasolar planet ever discovered.
- Extrasolar Visions
- Lots of great info and pictures (artistic renderings, but scientifically guided).
- The Kepler Mission
- A search for habitable, Earth-like planets.
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- The Spitzer Space Telescope
- The Chandra X-Ray Observatory
- Meteorites
- What they are and how they're classified.
- Scale of the Universe Videos
- The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals
and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable
inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another,
how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged
position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great
enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere
to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least
in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment
the Earth is where we make our stand.
--Carl Sagan
- Virgo Cluster
- Hubble UDF zoom-in
- SDSS map galaxies
- The Grand Scale of the Universe
- The Known Universe
- Earth Science Links
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Glaciology terms
- Learn about moraines, eskers, etc. The Science Bowl loves these.
- Palaeos
- The history of life on Earth.
- Mineral Gallery
- Learn about different minerals and how they're classified.
- Rock Gallery
- Learn about different rocks and how they're classified.
- The Cloud Atlas
- Learn about clouds and how they're classified.
- More about clouds
- Online Textbook
- Biology Links
- The Tree of Life
- Provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history.
- Animal Diversity Web
- An online database of animal natural history, distribution, and classification.
- ZooBank
- The online registry for zoological nomenclature.
- All About Birds
- An online guide to birds and bird watching.
- FishBase
- More than you ever wanted to know about the fishes of the world.
- The Plant List
- All known plant species.
- The Plant Kingdom
- Fungi and
more Fungi
- Online Textbook
Math
- Siemens Westinghouse Competition
- American Mathematics Competitions
- The Mathematical Association of America.
- AMC Practice
- Practice Problems
- Competition Links
- CAML (California Mathematics League)
- Mandelbrot Competition
- Stanford Math Tournament
- Tokutomi Mathematics Contest
- Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (BAMO)
- MathWorld
- "The world's most extensive mathematics resource."
- Art of Problem Solving
- MathLinks
Computer Science
- USA Computing Olympiad (USACO)
- American Computer Science League (ACSL)
Random Interesting Things
- 3D Mandelbrot Fractals
- Intriguing.
- How does this happen?
- Volcanic lightning.
Other
- Wikipedia
- The most reliable source on the web.[citation needed]
- But seriously, many of their science articles are actually pretty good.
- Science Jokes
- Someone once said that the point of an education was so that you could understand more jokes.
- xkcd
- Why not?