19th Century Scientific American Online
http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American

From current writing to past science: 19th Century Scientific American Online contains the contents of the first 15 years of this influential science magazine. In Volume 1 Issue One, from 1845, read about the mole, swallowed by a rattlesnake, that managed to stay alive and gnaw its way out. There's also a report of a floating haystack. On more serious notes, you'll find features on smoke filters for locomotives and the properties of zinc. It's not a particularly well thought out site, requiring lots of clicking to get to the actual meat of each issue. But once you've burrowed down you'll be rewarded with the whole shebang: articles, illustrations and advertisements. There's even a search engine to let you find specific articles. -- Rose Vines

Reed Books Science Pages
http://www.reedbooks.com.au/rigby/kids/kidplace.html

Excellent resources to inspire kids and adults alike.

Australian Environmental Research Network
http://www.erin.gov.au

ERIN gives information on biodiversity, marine and coast, state of the environment, and ecologically sustainable development in Australia.

CSIRO
http://www.csiro.au

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's web page offers information on the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (CPBR), Eucalypt collaborative data set project , Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) (Gopher), Wattles (Acacia) in the Gardens, Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (Bioserv Gopher), Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA) , Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Gopher), CSIRO Tropical Forest Research Centre (TFRC) (Gopher) and many other fascinating CSIRO projects.

The Ontario Science Centre
http://www.osc.on.ca/

One of the best science centres on the net.

Periodic Table of Elements
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/

The Berkeley mirror of WebElements contains links to data for the first 109 elements.

Questacon
http://sunsite.anu.edu.au:80/Questacon/index.html

For science sites that dazzle see Questacon, Australia's premier hands-on science and technology centre. Special treats include a Kidspace zone complete with join the dots and dinosaurs to colour in. For older kids there's comets, star charts and lots of other goodies.

The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Bill Arnett's site is an essay about our solar system with text, pictures, sounds and an occasional movie. Each of the planets and major moons in our solar system is briefly described and illustrated with pictures from NASA spacecraft. With a few clicks, you can see images that only a few decades ago could only be dreamed of.

The Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural_research.dir/visible_human.html

The Visible Human Project is an outgrowth of the (USA) National Library of Medicine's long-range plan to create a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CAT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals. Sample images can be down-loaded. Great for students of medicine. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.

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