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Science on the Internet
If you get tired of aimlessly surfing the Net or blasting away cyber warriors, you can try some of these free programs and Web sites. How about tracking the planets, stars and even satellites or solve complex equations, explore models of molecules in 3D, watch live sub-atomic particle collisions, create artificial life and fractal designs, talk to a computer or look at sound waves.
Internet Interrnet2 is a collaboration between 190 universities in an attempt to create an Internet that works more like the Inernet's inventors originally intended. Individual connections can transfer data at up to 2.4 gigabits per second which is about 43,000 times more than 56K modem, according to a Discover magazine article written by Brad Lemley, May 2002..
www.internet2.edu
webmuseum.dsi.internet2.edu
www.cybergeography.org
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Astronomy Home Planet - There is much more to astronomy besides gazing upon the stars. Here is a free program that will allow you to determine what you are looking at when you gaze upon the stars. Home Planet was written by John Walker of Switzerland who is the founder and former CEO of Autodesk, maker of AutoCAD. Home Planet is distributed as freeware. Advanced users can track the International Space Station, Space Shuttle, or other scientific or communication satellites and even control a telescope.
For more information or to download,
www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html
Hubble Space Telescope
http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Forget that cheap telescope you got for Christmas! The Hubble is yours too, use it. Click the link above to learn more about HST.
Also see http://hubble.stsci.edu/
 SETI@Home - Add your computer's processing power to the largest supercomputer on Earth and help search for extraterrestrial life.SETI@Home (setiathome.berkeley.edu)
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PhysicsFermi National Accelerator Laboratory
 Watch sub-atomic particle collisions live from world's highest-energy physics laboratory. The Tevatron is four miles in circumference and began operation in 1983. It has 1,000 superconducting magnets that are cooled by liquid helium to -268 degrees C (-450 degrees F). It is used to speed protons and antiprotons in opposite directions at tremendous speeds and then crossing their paths resulting in a collision. Sophisticated instruments then detect the particles that make up all matter.
www.fnal.gov/pub/now/live_events/index.html
www.fnal.gov/
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Chemistry RasMol is a free program that uses display Brookhaven Databank (PDB) files to display the arrangement of atoms in various molecules. PDB files of almost any molecule can be easily searched for and downloaded from the Internet. RasMol also reads several other molecule file formats.
www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
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