Math & Physics
The Advanced Light Source
http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/
A division of the Berkeley Laboratory,
the Advanced Light Source (ALS) "is a national user
facility that generates intense light for scientific and
technological research."Students and educators can learn
how ALS, with the use of one of the world's brightest
sources of ultraviolet and soft X-ray beams and the
world's first third generation synchrotron light source
in its energy range, studies the properties of
materials, trace metals, and the structures of atoms and
molecules.
ALICE: A Large Ion Collider
Experiment at CERN LHC http://alice.web.cern.ch/Alice/AliceNew/
This website features
the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment)
collaboration's aim to "study the physics of strongly
interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where
the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark-gluon
plasma, is expected." The Public section of the website
features the construction plan for the detector located
at CERN, which will be optimized for heavy-ion physics.
Visitors can learn how the collaboration, consisting of
one-thousand members from twenty-seven countries, will
use the Large Hadron Collidor (LHC) to create
quark-gluon plasma. Students and educators will find
instructional materials dealing with the concept of
quark matter and its presence during the Big Bang.
Hands on CERN http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/hoc_v21en/index.html
The project Hands-on-CERN was developed
at Stockholm University to educate high school students
and teachers about the fundamental processes inside
matter and the current research dealing with particle
collisions.
Heiney Group Home Page
http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~heiney/group/group.html#cmccat
With the use of x-ray diffraction, Paul
Heiney's research group at the University of
Pennsylvania studies the properties of materials with
unusual structural order. Researchers can learn about
the group's development of a strand oven to pull
single-orientation discotic strands appropriate for
x-ray diffraction analysis and their ability to
differentiate between the cores and tails of discotic
molecules. The website also discusses the group's work
with colloids and fullerenes.
Modeling for Understanding in Science Education
(MUSE) http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/muse/
Modeling for Understanding in Science
Education (MUSE) is a collaborative project by the
National Center for Improving Student Learning and
Achievement in Mathematics and Science (NCISLA) of
university researchers, high school teachers, and
students. The website provides course materials and
extensive background on the educational units for
Earth-moon-sun dynamics and natural selection, which are
based on several years of research.
Nanodot
http://nanodot.org/
Sponsored by the Foresight Institute (a
non-profit educational organization), the Nanodot site
is designed to disseminate news and ongoing developments
in the field of molecular nanotechnology. Perhaps the
most helpful part of this website is the vast amount of
material dedicated to explaining in detail about the
very field of nanotechnology.
Wright Center for Science Education: Cosmic
Evolution http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/docs/splash.html
Students and educators can find abundant
QuickTime movies dealing with Cosmic Origins, the Big
Bang, Cosmic Structures, the Sun's Life Cycle, and much
more. Anyone looking for instructive materials about the
evolution of the universe should visit this constructive
website.
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