Science
Fantastic images and photographs of the universe, stars, planets and all things astronomical, with brief explanations from professional astronomers. A new picture is added daily to the archive, which goes back over a decade.
Interactive pages that compliment the BBC’s science related programmes, and include subsections headed Animals, Prehistoric Life, Human Body and Mind, Genes and Space.
Simple and easy to understand explanations of how things work. There's a vast amount of information here, split into categories including science, electronics and computing.
Discover useful internet resources for teaching, learning and research. Intute covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.
Site that converts measurements, time, currencies, etc. from one set of units to another.
The Meteorological Office’s site provides up-to-the-minute and detailed weather for the UK and the rest of the world, including forecasts, summaries, statistics, satellite images and news.
Very comprehensive and interactive site provides news, information, articles and features, links to guides titled Adventure and Exploration, Animals and Nature, History and Culture, Kids, Maps and Geography, Photography and Travel, and discusses environment and conservation issues.
More than twenty thousand IT terms defined and explained.
