Science Library

There is a recent trend among universities to upload content, often free, on the web. YouTube, capitalising on this trend, launched its education channel YouTube EDU last year. Last month, it made it international and found strong support from nearly 45 institutions of higher learning in Europe and Israel. Check out these educational online videos today.

To access YouTube EDU, please click here.

ChemMobi is a free application which allows iPhone / iPod Touch users to search across 30 million chemical structures via webservices.

Here is the list of Amazon Editors’ Picks for 2009.

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
• Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll
• Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
• Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R. Barry
• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo
• Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders
• The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems by Mark Levi
• Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster by Allan J McDonald
• Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 by John Harley Warner
• The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math’s Most Contentious Brain Teaser by Jason Rosenhouse