Biology in the News
Last revised: Thursday, January 10, 2002
Online Magazines and News sources
Note: a few of these sites require either free or paid subscriptions for full access.
- Science News Online: a good source for new developments in biology summarized.
- Scientific American Online: in-depth articles on topics of current interest, as well as shorter news briefs.
- InScight: current new stories from Science magazine in partnership with Academic Press
- The New York Times Sciences News: generally excellent coverage of newsworthy science stories.
- Science Now: today's stories from Science magazine
- Science Daily: links to current newsworthy articles in the sciences.
- Discover Magazine: recent topics in all areas of science presented at an introductory level.
- The Why Files: good collection of explanations for all kinds of phenomena.
- The Wild File. Your urgent questions about the world, answered. See Archives for interesting and often unfamiliar explanations. From Outside Magazine.
- Human Gene Map is posted on the Web. The National Library of Medicine has posted the current Human Genome Map, showing the positions of about half of known human genes on their chromosomes, on the World Wide Web.