How to Find Your Way Under the Hood & Around the Car

How to Find Your Way Under the Hood & Around the Car

“A Quick and Easy Guide to Preventive Maintenance for the Self-Service Customer…(and anyone else who drives).” Learn about how a car works, what the parts are called, and how to maintain your car for maximum performance. Includes an easy-to-understand map of a car engine.
Subject: Science & Technology–Transportation–Road–Vehicles–Automobiles–Understanding Your Car

Landings

Landings

Huge aviation web directory with access to flying-related databases on regulations, reports, airports, flight plans, certifications, and aircraft registrations, as well as some useful aviation calculators.
Subject: Science & Technology–Transportation–Air

Classification of Living Things: An Introduction to the Principles of Taxonomy with a Focus on Human Classification Categories

Classification of Living Things: An Introduction to the Principles of Taxonomy with a Focus on Human Classification Categories

This is an informative tutorial on the Linnaean system of classification. The site offers a wealth of information including discussions on the principles of classification, glossary of terms and a table of the five kingdoms. The site also provides links to other anthropology-related sites.
Subject: Science & Technology–Life Sciences

Environment Canada

Environment Canada

Searching for information about the longest river in Canada, in the world? Want to look at a streamflow map or other resources dedicated to rivers? Check out this site managed by Environment Canada.
Subject: Science & Technology–Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Natural History Magazine

Natural History Magazine

This is the web edition of magazine on natural history. “Our authors???an assortment of archaeologists, biologists, astronomers, anthropologists, and top science writers???delve into our origins, explore our future, offer provocative new explanations of why we act the way we do, explaining our relationships with the rest of the living world, from t …
Subject: Science & Technology–Life Sciences

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society includes Research-Expository Surveys, “papers that present a clear and insightful exposition of significant aspects of contemporary mathematical research;” the texts of Gibbs Lectures, Progress in Mathematics lectures, and retiring presidential addresses; Research Reports, which are “brief, timely r …
Subject: Science & Technology–Mathematics

Russian Chemical Reviews

Russian Chemical Reviews

“Russian Chemical Reviews is the English edition of the one of the leading Russian scientific journal in chemistry, Uspekhi Khimii, founded in 1932. It contains reviews on current topics in chemistry and related sciences. Russian Chemical Reviews is published twelve times a year by Turpion Ltd, a company jointly owned by the Royal Society of Chemis …
Subject: Science & Technology–Chemical Sciences (Chemistry)

Commercial Carrier Journal Digital

Commercial Carrier Journal Digital

The website companion to Commercial Carrier Journal magazine. “News and headlines affecting today’s truck fleet managers.” Includes digital archive of past issues, January 2009 to present.
Subject: Science & Technology–Transportation–Road

Journey through the Galaxy

Journey through the Galaxy

An overview of several fields of astronomy, including topics in the solar system, stars and stellar evolution, extrasolar planets, cosmology, and space exploration. Also includes an astronomy glossary.
Subject: Science & Technology–Astronomy–Stellar; Science & Technology–Astronomy; Science & Technology–Astronomy–Spaceflight & Exploration

MarconiCalling

MarconiCalling

This site examines the life, science, and achievements of Guglielmo Marconi, often referred to as the pioneer of wireless communication. A timeline covers important events in Marconi’s life. There are also self-contained exhibitions that cover the significant milestones of the development of wireless. The Communications section features layers and …
Subject: Science & Technology–Communications

DNA Interactive

DNA Interactive

A more advanced resource from the team that produced DNA From the Beginning, this site explores the history of genetic science, explains the structure and function of DNA, describes the technology that allows DNA manipulation and its applications, and surveys the human genome. Also provides lesson plans and an online teaching community (free regis …
Subject: Science & Technology–Life Sciences–Genetics