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Science Podcasts & Videos

TEDTalks
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

NPR's Science Friday
Science Friday is a weekly talk show about newsworthy science with a call-in portion where listeners can present questions to a panel of experts.

Scientific American Podcasts
Weekly science podcasts that include 60 seconds of the latest news about science, the mind, and the environment.

Radiolab
Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and encouraged to grow. Bring your curiosity, and we'll feed it with possibility.

How Stuff Works - Life Sciences Videos
HowStuffWorks is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.

Science Websites

Magazines - current articles

Popular Science  - written for anybody to understand
Popular Science has been a leading source of science and technology news since its inception way back in 1872.

Scientific American - written for educated people, but not necessarily scientists
Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and technology for more than 160 years.

Science Magazine - written for scientists
Founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal.

 

Newspapers - breaking news

Boston Globe Science Section

New York Times Science Section

Older Newspapers

  • The New York Times - See Ms. Pollock for a password.
    Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985).
  • Boston Globe 
    Search the full text of The Boston Globe (starting in 1980).

 

Websites

How Stuff Works - Click on Life Sciences (Articles)
HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages.

Discover - Living World
A magazine that publishes articles about science, technology, and the future. The site includes podcasts and videos on current science topics.

Databases

 

Databases

Science Online

See Ms. Pollock for a public library card number.

- includes experiments & reference books

Academic Journals (primary source)