Recommended websites
Staff and students at the Department recommend the following websites and resources for finding out more about physics:
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
Particle physics
- http://www-numi.fnal.gov/PublicInfo/index.html The MINOS experiment
- http://www.adams-institute.ac.uk/ John Adams Institute
String theory