Vishal Mishra asks:
I am searching for websites which provide me with answers and an explanation to science questions, I am not talking about textbook questions. What do you suggest?
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10 Answers -
Tim Brookes
September 5, 2012Vishal,
I would personally recommend HowStuffWorks as a good place to start. They specialise in just about everything, but science is a specialty over there. You can’t necessarily “ask” questions, but there’s a powerful search engine and a good chance what you’re already asking has been explained before.
Wikipedia is another, more obvious, resource which has taught me a lot over the years. Granted, it’s not the most reliable source but for gaining an overview it’s pretty good. Similarly, WikiAnswers and Yahoo Answers are two fairly well-manned resources where people are bound to respond to your queries in good time.
Hopefully these help. You should also check out Stuff You Should Know, the podcast from How Stuff Works. They mostly deal in science, but also tackle things like social issues and myths too. I’ve written an article about it, which you can read here.
Tim
First of all thank you very much for your respond.
I use HowStuffWorks.com, it really helps me, but i didn’t know about podcast from HowStuffWorks.com, now i will use them.
I am very pleased to see, how quickly i received response.Thank’s MUO.
Thank You
September 5, 2012Saikat Basu
September 5, 2012For good in-depth reading, you can keep Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com) bookmarked.
Here are a few more:
WebAnswers – http://www.webanswers.com/science
New Scientist – http://www.last-word.com/
Ask A Scientist – http://newton.dep.anl.gov/aasquesv.htm
Mad Science – http://www.madsci.org/
Thank you, i was just looking for Ask A Scientist type of website, but i will keep this question open for one more day, because i want to find some more these sort of websites/blogs.
Thank You very much i really liked these sites.
September 5, 2012Thank you, i was just looking for Ask A Scientist type of website, but i will keep this question un-resolved for one more day, so that i can receive some more suggestions.
Thank you, these websites are really great !!!
September 5, 2012Rajaa Chowdhury
September 5, 2012Physics -> http://www.physics.org/
Chemistry ->
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/ Web lectures on chemistry at MIT (opencourseware)
http://academicearth.org/subjects/chemistry Assorted lectures from various sources
http://www.youtube.com/user/bannanaiscool Youtube channel of Chemguy (set at various levels)
http://www.khanacademy.org/#chemistry Lots of videos on chemistry topics for A-level
http://www.chem-ilp.net/labTechniques/LabTechniques.htm Lab technique videos
http://www.chembuddy.com/?left=lectures
http://www.cosmolearning.com/chemistry/
Thank you, i think these link will really help me.
September 6, 2012Rob Hindle
September 5, 2012WikiPedia is quite strong on Science answers and http://www.wolframalpha.com/ can be very effective.
If you mean something more like the way MUO works – well on the whole you get what you pay for, you may want free answers but if you are prepared to pay you might get more authoritative responses. A Google search like “answers to science questions” will give you plenty to choose from but probably the best answer is to rely on Google search to get the best answer for each individual question rather than look for a single source.
Thank you for giving me advise, i liked the site wolframalpha.com, i think it’s very good for statistical information.
Thank You
September 5, 2012Justin Pot
September 5, 2012I love reading answers to science questions at Reddit:
http://reddit.com/r/askscience
People there are friendly and love answering interesting questions. I’d highly recommend this, especially if you’re already a Reddit user.
I was going to mention this but now I’ll have to second.
September 5, 2012Paul Pruitt
September 5, 2012Yahoo answers works for scientific questions too: http://answers.yahoo.com/.
Kevin Fegan
September 6, 2012Rajaa Chowdhury gave some good examples …
Try these also:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/
http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/
http://math.stackexchange.com/
http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/
http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/
and possibly others on the Stack Exchange network:
http://stackexchange.com/sites
Mel Reynolds
September 6, 2012http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience
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September 7, 2012howstuffworks, Mad science, and sometimes yahoo answers (don’t always depend on them for answers bcuz come jo shmo that knows nothing can answer questions about science which he got an f on in high school or something
kumar raja
November 20, 2012I think google is the best know……….?