Physics

Want to find out about how the world really works? Check out any of the websites below to find a host of interesting information about how Physics is changing the world every day! 

If you're interested in a particular area of Physics, ask your teacher to recommend the best site to use.

Institute of Physics

New Scientist

The Feynman lectures

Scientific American

The Khan Academy

Oxford University Science Blog

and from the Oxford university website

General physics

• http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Explains thousands of topics, from engines to lock-picking

• http://www.ehow.com/ Learn how to do just about everything at eHow

• http://www.badscience.net/ Ben Goldacre's column from The Guardian in a weblog format

• http://www.ted.com/ “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world”

• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html Educational videos suitable for the classroom

• http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ Podcast: NPR Science Friday

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qyyb Podcast: BBC Material World

• http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/ Sense about Science

Astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science

• http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA Solar System photojournal

• http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/ NASA image galleries

• http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ Astronomy Picture of the Day

• http://www.stellarium.org/ A free open source planetarium for your computer

• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/ Blog: Bad Astronomy

• http://www.planetary.org/blog/ Blog: Planetary Society

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jonathanamos/ Blog: BBC Jonathan Amos

• http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ Physics and Astronomy video series from the University of Nottingham

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyRqcebnFTo A video explaining the science at Square Kilometre Array project. More information can also be found here: http://www.skatelescope.org/

Climate science

• http://trillionthtonne.org/ Estimated cumulative emissions from fossil fuel use

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4wn Podcast: BBC Costing the Earth

• http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/group/mipas/L2OXF/antarctic_o3.html Web-pages monitoring the Antarctic and Arctic ozone holes

• http://www.skepticalscience.com/ Examining Global Warming Skepticism

Nanoscience

• http://www.nnin.org/nnin_edu.html

• http://www.nisenet.org/

Particle physics

• http://www-numi.fnal.gov/PublicInfo/index.html The MINOS experiment

• http://www.ptcri.ox.ac.uk/ Particle Therapy Cancer Research Institute

• http://www.adams-institute.ac.uk/ John Adams Institute

String theory

• http://whystringtheory.com