Science

Topics
 Choose from those below or go to the alphabetical topic list

Acid rain	Antibiotics
Cloning	Diseases
Environmental issues	Fossils
Human body systems	Inventors and scientists
Metals and mining	Road and vehicle safety
Solar system and planets	Weather and climate
Rocks and the rock cycle	Laser technology
Genetics and genetic engineering	Energy
Cancer	Global warming
Biology	Chemistry
Physics

General links

Science frontiers - unusual & unexplained	Eric's Treasure Troves of Science
Science dictionaries	Simply Science (Edna)
Internet Schoolhouse - Science	Science Links Index
The Why Files	USGS Learning Web

 

Inventors and scientists

American inventors & inventions	Chronology of mathematicians
How stuff works!	Invention dimension
Australian patents, trademarks and designs	The Nobel eMuseum
4000 years of women in science	Thomas Alva Edison
The Farnsworth Chronicles	The Galileo Project
Ernest Rutherford	Immanuel College - Biography
How things work	Inventors
Inventor's toolbox	Inventors Museum
Inventors and inventions	Important historical inventions and inventors
Alexander Graham Bell - the inventor	Exploring Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci

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Laser technology

How Things Work : Lasers	Laser tutorial
Laser Tutorials (Rockwell Industries)	Centre for Laser Surgery
Laser surgery FAQ	Yahoo!: Lasers - Holography
Lasers in industry	Industrial laser use & applications
Easy, fun and satisfying laser activities	The laserdisc FAQ
Amrich Laser Learning Centre	Laser Technology Inc.
BBC News : laser bursts help 'hatch' embryos	Inside Laserium
HealthCentral - General Encyclopedia - Laser therapy	Laser surgery for eyes
Howstuffworks "How Lasers Work"	Lasers
The invention of the laser at Bell Labs 1958-1998	Laser history timeline

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Metals and mining

WA Dept of Minerals & Energy	Chamber of Mines & Energy WA
Copper Development Assoc	CSIRO Exploration & Mining
Mining & Exploration (Aust & PNG)	Info-Mine
Mining Journal	Mining Services Directory
MIM Holdings Limited	USEnvironmental Protection Agency
US Geological Survey	Queensland Mining Council
Mining History Network	Yahoo! Mining
MetalPrices.com	Goldsheet
Uranium Information Centre	Mining & Petroleum Info Page
Global Mining Directory	Mining & Petroleum Links
AMEC Home Page

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Road and vehicle safety

Safety tips	Airbags
Transport SA - road safety	Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety	Buying a safer car
NCAP offset crash tests
National Organization for Automotive Safety & Victims' Aid (Japan)
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (USA)

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 Rocks and the Rock Cycle

Minerals, magmas and volcanic rocks	The earth - our planet
Questions about lava	The Rock Cycle

 Fossils

The Mesozoic, age of cycads and dinosaurs	The early Paleozoic
The late Paleozoic	Life through geologic time

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Last revised 27th May 2003
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Jenni van Wageningen jvanwageningen@immanuel.sa.edu.au Diane Fopp dfopp@immanuel.sa.edu.au