Science (Biology/Chemistry/Physics): Online Resources: Biology and Chemistry

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Birds of North America (BNA) is the most comprehensive reference for the life histories of over 760 bird species that breed in the United States and Canada. Species accounts are written by ornithologists and other experts and are an essential reference for anyone with an advanced interest in birds. BNA accounts have always offered an in-depth, authoritative summary of scientific literature and media. However, in combination with the Macaulay Library and eBird, our restructured species accounts are now accompanied by new sounds, images, and video, and distributional maps and model output generated by eBird.

Circulatory system, Respiratory system, Digestive system, Skeletal system, Muscular system, Nervous system, Reproductive system (female), Reproductive system (male)

The gateway to our online database of the world's known species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms.

CELLS alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. The site has been available continuously and updated annually since May of 1994 and now hosts over 4 million visitors a year.

Any species, including its seeds, eggs, spores, or other biological material capable of propagating that species, that is not native to that ecosystem; and whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.

CSHL is a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, and bioinformatics and a broad educational mission. Links to a variety of research and education resources.

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Home of the Microbe Zoo

The DNALC’s award-winning suite of websites includes primers on DNA structure and function, genetic disorders, the molecular basis of cancer and cognition, the history of maize cultivation, and the American eugenics movement. Lab websites provide open source methods for students to actively explore scientific techniques and bioinformatics websites enable students to analyze genes and genomes.

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an international effort, led by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, to raise awareness and understanding of living nature by providing free, open, multilingual, digital access to trusted information on all known species.

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

From Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN)

ENS is the original international daily wire service of the environment.

Database of resources broken down between evolution and society, science and religion, legal issues, as well as resources from books and reports, definitions, articles, research, and online resources.

The goal of this project is to use molecular illustration and animation to help describe origins of life research and theories to broad audiences.

An educational resources by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project (HGP) was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health.

iBiology Research Talks by Topic

This collection contains an assortment of digital resources relevant to exploring American Indian land and resource development by using investigative case studies.

IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,400 Member organisations and the input of more than 15,000 experts. This diversity and vast expertise makes IUCN the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

Special Collections & Archives Research Center

Professional Version. The trusted provider of medical information since 1899

The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

Advancing Drought Science and Preparedness across the Nation

The NLM Visible Human Project has created publicly-available complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of a human male body and a human female body.

The NOAA Photo Library collections reflect NOAA’s broad mission of advancing science “from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the Sun.”

NRDC works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

The Taxonomy Database is a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases. This currently represents about 10% of the described species of life on the planet.

An innovative semantically-enhanced search engine of the largest collection of neuroscience information that allows users to customize and refine their searches via NIF's terminologies.

OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily.

News and Articles on Science and Technology

The Noble Research Institute Plant Image Gallery is designed to assist botanists, ecologists, natural resource managers, educators and hobbyist with the identification of plants commonly found in the southern Great Plains.

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is distinguished by the beauty of its landscape, collections, and gardens, and the scope and excellence of its programs in horticulture, education, and science.

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Educators: Inspire your undergraduate and high-school AP biology students with resources on genetics and cell biology from Nature Publishing Group, home of Nature, the most cited scientific journal in the world.

National Institutes of Health: stem cell sciences, research and clinical use

An interactive reference work covering animal species worldwide.

Explore the latest scientific advances and chemistry-related information to address global challenges

Here you will find exemplary digital resources, tools, and online services; your 24:7 aid for teaching and learning chemistry. A collaborative, community-driven effort, ChemEd DL is the place for sharing your work and benefitting from what others have done.

INCHEM Internationally Peer Reviewed Chemical Safety Information from the World Health Organization

created by David S. Hsu of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

From the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

from National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

From the Royal Society of Chemistry. Chemical stories, interviews, news and opinions, delivered directly to your device.
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Explores how Chemical Structure & Reactivity Naturally Emerge from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Mark R. Leach Ph.D.

Climate Monitoring at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information is committed to the monitoring and assessment of the state of the Earth's climate in near real-time, providing decision-makers at all levels of the public and private sectors with data and information on climate trends and variability.

Solve problems using 25,183 values with citations spanning 131 quantities -- Our calculators convert values to your units.

Environmental, Chemistry & Hazardous Materials News, Careers & Resources

Chemical & Engineering News (c&en)

A searchable inventory of freely available models, tools, and databases from EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD).

This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education.
This collection contains an assortment of digital resources relevant to exploring American Indian land and resource development by using investigative case studies. We will systematically take an Earth System approach to understand resource development on American Indian lands.

The best first place to go for medical information.

From the National Library of Medicine. Quickly find chemical information from authoritative sources

The Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table.

The mission of Toxicological Sciences, the official journal of the Society of Toxicology, is to publish a broad spectrum of impactful research in the field of toxicology.

Chief Executives Board for Cooperation

The periodic table is an arrangment of the chemical elements ordered by atomic number so that periodic properties of the elements (chemical periodicity) are made clear.

As the title of our web site implies, we believe that the world of electronic media and resources has much to offer the student of chemistry.