This week I’ve decided to mix it up and feature a subject that we couldn’t live without: Science. Whether you’re starting classes towards a career in Biology, laboratory sciences, genetics, or you just know you’re way around a double helix and love studying hydrogen’s bond to oxygen, here are some great websites for scientists, science lovers, and students alike.
If Biology is your “bag,” then check out Foldit. This site is distinctly designed to help you understand the structure of a protein, while you build onto previously described structures. The twist here? You’ll be helping scientists at the same time!
If you’re new at this “game” they do have introductory puzzles for beginners to get their feet wet with the basic concepts and tools needed to fold proteins.
Give this protein prediction and design website a try, especially if you’re looking for a break from the biology books.
For some, the prospect of having the periodic table of elements prominently displayed as your desktop or in the form of a poster on a wall sounds dreadful. But for others, such as myself, chemistry, and the periodic table, are necessary and fascinating evil. It’s the mapping system of the most crucial elements on earth, and a great “cheat sheet” for those studying science.
Lucky for current students there are better ways of recalling information from the periodic table than referring to the sheet in the back of your textbook. I give you Dynamic Periodic Table, and Periodic Table of Elements…Both of these wonderful sites are great alternatives, unique in their own right.
Dynamic Periodic Table allows you to highlight elements and keep them separate by their aggregate state (solid, liquid, gas, unknown) and also by group (nonmetals with subgroups and metals with subgroups). When you click on an individual element, it launches a new window with its specific information as well as a matching wikipedia article.
This tool is more reminiscent of the charts you spent time with in middle school and high school. Great for the more traditional “element seekers”.
Periodic Table of Elements is a serious website, if you’re “serious” about the elements. Sponsored by DOW this robust table of elements is more compact and is great for quick summaries of the elements. Each element is also accompanied by an image, relating to the element, as well as it’s measurements with a link for further information. Great to bookmark as a go-to guide for all things periodic.
So if you’re feeling nerdy, or have a hankering to build proteins and explore the periodic table, drop by these sites today. It’s a quick way to refresh your brain on things you may be forgetting and need for class.
– J. Mason
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