Science News Links

Agence Science-Presse (Cyber-Express, Hebdo-Science)
Agence Science Presse has been feeding Quebec media with stories on science and new technology.
http://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca

Discovery Channel on the Web
Your route into the exciting world of the science news and documentaries of Canada's popular science TV channel.
http://www.exn.ca

Quebec Science
La science et la technologie pour tous.
http://www.cybersciences.com

Quirks & Quarks
Quirks & Quarks is the award-winning radio science program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The program is heard by a national audience in Canada of nearly 500,000 people. It is also heard around the world on short-wave via Radio Canada International.
http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/

Canadian Science Writers Association
The association for those involved in science writing and communication in Canada. Sponsor of the annual Science in Society journaliam awards.
http://www.sciencewriters.ca/

Climate Change Secretariat
The best Canadian climate change Web site. It's run by the Climate Change Secretariat, who are working on the Canadian implementation strategy for Kyoto, and leads to a lot of other information sources. http://climatechange.gc.ca/english/index.shtml

Some Canadian Research Projects

The GEMINI Project Site
Canadian involvement in an exciting international project building major new telescopes, in Hawaii and Chile (graphic available).
http://www.gemini.edu/

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Canada's entry in the race to find out the nature of one of the Universe's most elusive and mysterious particles.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/

TRIUMF – Canada's Tri-University Meson Facility
A major national facility that really puts physics to work.
http://www.triumf.ca/welcome/about.html

High Energy Physics Page (Gateway to CERN, Atlas Project, etc.)
A look into some of the major international physics projects and the science behind them.
http://www.ifae.es/

Chinook (Checker Playing Program)
NSERC Steacie Fellow Jonathan Schaeffer makes the link between artificial intelligence and game playing.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/

Lithoprobe
Canada's largest and most successful earth sciences project. A cooperative effort of universities, government agencies and many private sector partners from every part of the country.
http://www.lithoprobe.ca/

E-GEMS (Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science)
Using games to open doors for young women in math and sciences.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/egems/index.html

Canada and the Ocean Drilling Project
A major international study that is looking at the Earth's crust underneath the oceans.
http://is.dal.ca/~odp/canadaodp/abtcanodp.html

The North Water Project
An international project in the largest and most biologically significant open water area of the Arctic.
http://www.fsg.ulaval.ca/giroq/now/wel.htm

ROPOS (Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science)
A Canadian-built robot that is expanding research capabilities in the deep ocean. One of its first successes has been the retrieval of black smoker chimneys from the floor of the Pacific.
http://www.ropos.com/index.htm

GLOBEC Canada
An NSERC-funded research network that is investigating how living marine resources are effected by changes in their physical environment.
http://www.globec-canada.mun.ca/globec/index.html

U.S. and Foreign Science Sources

SciCentral
A major gateway to some of the best science and science news sites.
http://www.scicentral.com/

Eurekalert News Releases
A U.S.-based service for breaking international science news.
http://www.eurekalert.org/news.pub.html

Nature Magazine
One of the world's premier science journals.
http://www.nature.com

Science Magazine
A major international science journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org/

New York Times
A great source of science news (Science Page).
http://www.nytimes.com/

Science Daily News Summaries
Digests of science news from major U.S. institutions.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/summaries.htm

American Association for the Advancement of Science
A major U.S. organization with many programs of interest to journalists and the public.
http://www.aaas.org/

Others

SchoolNet
http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/

Strategis
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html