SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

U.S. Government Agencies
Non-U.S. Government Sites
Spanish Agencies
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U.S. Government Agencies

The U.S. has no Ministry of Science and Technology. Within the executive branch, the White House has an Office of Science and Technology, headed by the President's Science Adviser. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds basic sciences, supporting research in universities and other research centers and supports projects involving business enterprises. See also the European Office of the NSF. Biomedical research is not covered by the NSF; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conduct research and also support outside research on health matters. NIH has a separate center focused on international links, the Fogarty International Center.

Many other U.S. agencies have science and technology interests. Examples include the Department of Energy - particularly, but not only, the National Laboratories such as Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore; the Department of Health and Human Services; the Centers for Disease Control; the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Commerce (National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ); the Department of Agriculture (the Agricultural Research Service), the Department of the Interior (the U.S. Geological Survey, and other agencies as cited under environment). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducts research. Civilian research is done by Department of Defense agencies such as the Office of Naval Research. See also the European Office for ONR which is a metasite for many other research sites.

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Non-US and Non-Government Sites

Metasites linking a broad array of resources are available for most fields of science. Also try the search engines, such as webcrawler and Yahoo.

Science organizations include the American Association for The Advancement of Science and the Federation of American Scientists; see also the National Academy of Sciences and its Government-University-Industry Roundtable.

On international science support, see NATO Science Programs, the European Commission, and the European Science Foundation.

General

• Hands-on Science Centers and Science Museums Worldwide (Metasite).

• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Metasite).

Astronomy

• Astroweb (Metasite)

• European Space Agency

• NASA

Biology

• BIO ON-LINE (Metasite).

• European Molecular Biology Laboratory

• Agricultural Biotechnology Center

Chaos

• The Chaos Metalink (Metasite)

Chemistry

• Internet Chemistry Resources (Metasite).

• World Wide Web Hub for Chemistry (Metasite)

Geology

• The Electronic Volcano

• Volcano World

• USGS

Mathematics

• Mathematics Archive (Metasite).

Marine Sciences and Law of the Sea

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• National Marine Fisheries Service

• Oceans and Law of the Sea Home Page

• Oceanography on the Net (Scripps Institute of Oceanography)

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• Ocean Planet (Smithsonian)

Meteorology

• National Weather Service

Paleontology

• Paleonet (Metasite).

Physics

• European Physics Society

• Physics Web

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Spanish Agencies

Several Government ministries maintain research institutions (for example, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has an Institute of Oceanography). Their work is coordinated through the Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT), the Interministerial Committee on Science and Technology, which produces the national R&D plans.

The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the Spanish Council on Scientific Research, under the Ministry of Education and Culture, both funds and conducts research in its 91 institutes and centers.

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• HOT AIR: Annals of Improbable Research

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