Science Specific Search Engines
ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available deep web search engine that uses advanced "federated search technology" to return high quality results by submitting your search query - in real-time - to other well respected search engines then collating, ranking and dropping duplicates of the results.
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.
Science.gov is a gateway to government science information and research results. Currently in its fifth generation, Science.gov provides a search of over 60 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2200 scientific Websites.
Use SciCentral as your gateway to the best sources in science. This site has a literature search, journals, databases, and other great tools for finding what you need.
Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books. Most articles are able to be downloaded at a cost. Please email the library with a link to an article you believe will be useful to your research and we will purchase the article on your behalf.
Australian of the Year: Professor Alan Mackay-Sim linked nerve cells in your nose to spinal cord repairs
Rosetta-Philae International Webinar
On Feb 23rd, the senior science students will be participating in an “aerospace” evening linking into the Rosetta – Philae International Webinar.
The Rosetta – Philae project was an international collaboration of researchers based at the DLR Microgravity centre in Cologne Germany. (DLR is the german equivalent of NASA.) In May 2004, they sent a rocket (Rosetta) to successfully intercept a comet, and then land a vehicle (Philae) on the surface of the comet. This mission was completed in October 2014.
This seminar is the presentation by the lead researchers of the results of the mission and discussion of the challenges and opportunities it presented. We have been invited to attend on the basis of our video application (see left), which some of the Year 11 and 12 Chemistry students prepared. Villanova College was the only Australian schooL selected.
On the evening, Dr Carolyn Jacobs, will also be presenting some of her work with the European Space Agency funded work on Plasma torches and its application for entry of space vehicles into planetary orbits. There will also be some of the UQ Mechanical engineering and hypersonic research staff attending, and they will be speaking to the boys about the opportunities available to them at UQ Engineering.
Cosmos Magazine
- Cosmos
"Cosmos is a quarterly science magazine. [They] aim to inspire curiosity in 'The Science of Everything' and make the world of science accessible to everyone."
Year 5
Biological Sciences - Adaptations