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

String theory

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