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Chemistry

• RSC (Chemistry World, The Reaction: for schools)
• ASC (Chemical and Engineering News)
• Nature (Sceptical Chymist)
  • News & Views: Science Base
  • Chemical Space, ChemJobber

• Blogs:
• ChemBark (Paul Bracher, Caltech)
• Curious Wavefunction (Ash Jogalekar: general)
• In the Pipeline (Derek Lowe: pharma)
• PeterMR's Blog (molecular informatics)
• Soft Machines (Richard Jones: nanotechnology)
  • Resources: IUPAC Gold Book (dictionary)
  • Alchemist's Glossary (Idaho: James Fromm)
  • The Periodic Table of Videos
    (Nottingham, Brady Haran. You Tube, new videos)
  • The Elements (reference: Mark Winter, Sheffield)
  • The Elements (Tom Lehrer )
  • Orbitals (the maths of electron orbits)
  • Cambridge: Chemistry Resources, Databases
  • Chemistry Concepts (Rod Nave, Georgia State)
  • Corrosion Doctors (electrochemical science, with biographies: Pierre Roberge)
  • Wikipedia Chemistry Portal
  • BASF (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory: Innovations)
  • Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry (introduction: James Fromm)
  • Just Ask Antoine (FAQs)
  • See also Astrochemistry, History of Science

• Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Departments Aston CE, Bath (CE), Birmingham (CE), Bristol, Cambridge (CE), Durham
  Edinburgh (CE), Heriot-Watt CE, Imperial (CE), Leeds, Liverpool, Loughborough (CE), Manchester (CE), Newcastle CE, Nottingham (CE)
  Oxford (CE), Queen's Belfast C&CE, St Andrews, Sheffield (CBE), Southampton, Strathclyde (CE), Sussex, UCL (CE), Warwick, York
• Departments (links; rankings)
• Chemistry Departments (world rankings: Quacquarelli Symonds)
• Chemical Engineering Departments (world rankings: QS)
• Academic World Rankings (ARWU)
• See also Engineering Departments

Earth Sciences

• Geology Times (RSS), Science Daily, Nature Geoscience
• American Geophysical Union (blogs, including Landslides)
• US Geological Survey (Recent Earthquakes)
• British Geological Survey (OpenGeoscience portal: maps and data)
• Royal Geographical Society, Geological Society
• GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
• Maps (links on this site)
• Geophysics Concepts (Rod Nave, Georgia State)
• Royal Museum for Central Africa
  (Tervuren: with Metafro geological and historical database)

• Selected UK departments: Bristol, Cambridge (geophysics, fluid mechanics)
• Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Oxford, UCL
• Earth & Marine Science Departments (world rankings: QS)
• Metallurgy & Minerals Departments (rankings: QS)

• Natural History Museums:
• American Museum of Natural History (NY: )
• Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
• Horniman Museum (Forest Hill, London)
• Manchester Museum
• Natural History Museum (London)
• Oxford Museum of Natural History
• Royal Ontario Museum
• Sedgwick Museum (Cambridge: Links)
• Smithsonian Natural History Museum
  • Rocks: Mineralogical Society (with images)
  • Mineralogical Society of America (with identification guides)
  • Rocks and Soils (NZ), Rock Types (Wikipedia)
  • Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks (NZ: 2006)
  • Decorative Rocks: Wilensky

• Environmental Science: Night and Day
• Richard Black (BBC environmental correspondent, blog)
• Environmental Science Departments (rankings: QS)
• British Antarctic Survey, Scott Polar Research Institute (image archive)
• Columbia Earth Institute, GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
• Earth Observatory (NASA)
• Environmental Economics (blog)
• US Antarctic Program (Antarctic Sun)
  • Ocean sciences: Deep Sea News
  • Glossary of Oceanography (Texas A & M)
  • US Oceanographic Centers: Bigelow,
    Harbor Branch, Scripps, Woods Hole
  • Ocean Observatories (links: Woods Hole)
  • UK Oceanographic Centres (links)
  • Bangor, Liverpool, Southampton
  • ESONET (Aberdeen)
  • Interactive Oceans (Washington)
  • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Ocean Networks Canada (Victoria BC)
  • Ocean Observatories Initiative
  • See also Ocean Engineering and Hydrography

• Climate and Meteorology: Glossary of Meteorology (AMS)
• Grantham Institute for Climate Change (Imperial)
• Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
• NCDC (National Climatic Data Centre), Met Office Hadley
• World Meteorological Organization
• Roger Pielke's Blog (climate science and policy)
• Radar Meteorology (links, Interpreting Radar)
• UK Lightning Monitor
• Tropical Cyclone Names (NOAA)
• Watts Up With That? (Anthony Watts: skeptical)
  • Geography: Royal Geographical Society
  • Geographical Review (American Geographical Society: JStor )
  • National Geographic Society
  • Royal Scottish Geographical Society
  • Geography Departments (world rankings: QS)
  • Geography Animated (course: Wycombe High School)

Life Sciences: Biology

Biology

• News: Biology News, Science Daily, EurikAlert
• Scholarly Societies (links from Waterloo, 2009)
• UK: Society of Biology, BBSRC (funding)
• The Biochemical Society (news, policy)
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Encyclopedia of Life (US: miscellaneous information, in development)
• Biology Concepts (Rod Nave, Georgia State)
• Wikipedia Biology Portal
• Cell Biology (animations: California)
• Singularity Hub (stem cell news)
  • Links to Blogs
  • Small Things Considered (microbes)
  • The Loom (Carl Zimmer)
  • Pharmaceutical Microbiology (UK: Tim Sandle)

• Life Sciences Departments
• UK Bioscience Departments (biology4all)
• Biological Science Departments (world rankings: QS)
• Life Sciences Departments (rankings: QS)
• Top Life Sciences Universities (THE-TR)
• Rockefeller University (NY)
  • Genetics: Genome Web
  • Scitable (article archive from Nature)
  • Cambridge Fly Lab, Flybase
  • Origins of Life Initiative (Harvard, with Church Lab)
  • Human Genome Labs, Sanger Institute (UK)
  • JCVI (Genomics)
  • Genentech (recombinant DNA)
  • Blogs: Genetic Future, Bioethics

• Biotech Strategy Blog (Pieter Droppert)
• Synthetic Biology Labs (links: Cambridge)
• Cambridge: Biochemical Engineering
• Imperial: Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology
• US DOE: Genomic Science Program
• Langer Lab (MIT: drug delivery systems)
• Intellectual Ventures, LS9 (biofuels)