Activities, games, and quizzes on a variety of science topics. Wonderful study aid for children aged 9-13. - Read more

Features a coal mine, a U-505 submarine, intelligent LEGO bricks, and travel through virtual reality. Includes a visitor's guide, membership details, educational programs and volunteer opportunities. Located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. - Read more

Site of the Cable TV Science Fiction Channel. Features a weekly magazine, daily news, web directory, book reviews and bulletin board system. - Read more

British SF and fantasy web portal. Features an internet search engine, daily news, fiction, reviews, star interviews, comic strips and games. - Read more

Links to 500 journals including the publisher's page and often the table of contents. - Read more

A dry bite is a bite by a venomous animal in which no venom is released.

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Venus Express (VEX) is the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency. Launched in November 2005, it arrived at Venus in April 2006 and has been continuously sending back science data from its polar orbit around Venus.

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Some examples of metamorphic rocks are gneiss, slate, marble, schist, and quartzite.

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Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA).

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Ball lightning is an atmospheric electrical phenomenon, the existence of which is disputed.

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A pure tone is a tone with a sinusoidal waveshape.

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A limnic eruption, also referred to as a lake overturn, is a rare type of natural disaster in which carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake water, suffocating wildlife, livestock and humans

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Instituto Butantan is a Brazilian biomedical research center affiliated to the São Paulo State Secretary of Health.

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The rings of Neptune consist of five principal rings discovered in 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

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Totality was visible in a diagonal path across the United States, and ended in North Africa.

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Total Dissolved Solids (often abbreviated TDS) is a measure of the combined content of all inorganic and organic substances contained in a liquid in molecular, ionized or micro-granular (colloidal sol) suspended form.

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A popular belief, stretching back at least to Aristotle in the 4th century BC, holds that the Moon appears larger near the horizon due to a real magnification effect caused by the Earth\'s atmosphere.

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The official emblem of the society was the okapi, chosen because although it was well known to the inhabitants of its region, it was unknown to the scientific world until 1901.

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Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called \'rotational shear\', which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around.

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The unique water conditions lead to a composition of flora and fauna that differs significantly from that found in whitewater sources.

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Cryptobotany is the study of various exotic plants which are not believed to exist by the scientific community, but which exist in myth, literature or unsubstantiated reports.

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Stories say the creature is shy and nocturnal. It is generally reported to explore campsites after dark, emit unusual whistle sounds, and hurl stones from locations that are hidden from view.

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Halite occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas.

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