Multimedia and Interactive Sites
- Galileo This TV show investigates a very wide range of topics of everyday interest. Best part of the site is an extensive archive of video clips. Note: The topics are not always scientific and sometimes in bad taste.
- Das Teilchen Abenteuer [=The Particle Adventure]: die Grundlagen [=fundamentals] der Materie und der Kräfte [=forces] German-language version of a prizewinning site created by the Particle Data Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Explains the mysteries of fundamental particles and forces, anti-matter, dark matter, string theory etc. Don't forget that in Germany, Quark is also a sort of smooth, more neutral-tasting cottage cheese you eat on bread with jam, or mixed up with herbs and spices
 Note there are some problems with the appearance of the interactive portions of this site in certain browsers.
Daily
Collections of Scientific News
- APA ZukunftWissen
- If the above link is broken, click here and then on the heading with the blue arrow, "fti und wissenschaft"
- idw
- Das idw Serviceangebot A great service providing
you directly with press releases with cutting-edge
research news from many of the major research institutions
in Germany. On your first visit, click on the
right hand side of the page on "persönlichen
Zugang anlegen & Abo abschließen" in order
to subscribe to their email listserv. Fill out
the form with your personal information (a good German
exercise! Ask your instructor or a friend for
help if you have trouble. "Freiwillig" means
"optional" [literally: "voluntarily"]). Then
check your areas of interest on the following page--you'll
only be sent news releases relevant to those areas
of interest. I'd recommend you choose the option
of receiving the news in digest form.
If you don't want to get regular messages from them,
just go to their archive (by entering via your "persönlicher
idw-Zugang" and then clicking on "Recherche im Nachrichtenarchiv")
and browse the links there or search ("Stichwortsuche"
= "key word search") for a specific topic.
Scientific Magazines Online
Astronomie
- Astronews.com
Tolle Seite mit Astronomie-Nachrichten. In der
Kategorie "Frag astronnews.com" kann man Fragen stellen, und es
gibt ein Glossar
mit Erklärungen der Fachbegriffe [=technical
terms], und auch eine gute Linkliste.
- Astronomie.de
- Astronomische
Fachbegriffe Concise German-German dictionary of astronomical
terminology put together by students at the Käthe Kollwitz Gymnasium in Wilhelmshaven.
- The
Astronomy Thesaurus Terms are listed alphabetically
and in thematic clusters; click on a term to see its
equivalents in German, English, French, Spanish and
Italian.
- Die
Sternbilder Sternbild = Konstellation.
- Sterne
und Weltraum Astronomie-Magazin
- Raumfahrt
Concret Online Magazin über Raumfahrt
Miscellaneous Scientific Sites
- wikipedia.de A great resource for all kinds of information, but especially for scientific topics.
- Deutsches
Museum München Museum für Naturwissenschaft
und Technik. Tolle interaktive Webseiten mit Videos, mini-Experimenten usw.
- Abi-Tools
Elaborate website with all kinds of exercises to help
students study biology, chemistry and physics for
the Abitur.
- Große
Enzyklopädie der Steine Encyclopaedia of
rocks, minerals and precious stones
- Mensch Einstein Excellent question and answer-based website where you can find information about concepts and devices that would not be possible without Einstein, biographicall information, and quotes.
- MendelWeb
A great site with all kind of information about Mendel.
In particular, it includes full German and English
texts of his famous paper, so if you open two browser
windows, you could read them side by side like a facing
page translation.
Scientific
Online Dictionaries
At this point, LEO and BEOLINGUS [linked in the left-hand navigation bar near the top of this page], among others, will allow you to find most of the technical terms you're looking for, but a specialized dictionary may still be helpful in some cases.
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