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Amaze Your Friends This site teaches science tricks you can perform while you're waiting for the to bring your food.
Science a GOGO Science with a sense a humor is the specialty of this site, where questions are answered and mysteries of the universe explained with lively graphics and even livelier writing.
Cells Alive Calling all teaches. Here's a phenomenal site that brings biology to life.
Nova On-line The popular PBS show has a beautiful Web site. The real draw here are the expansive topics and sharp graphics.
Planet Diary This site features great visuals and a wealth of information.
Scientific American If you are adult with more than passing interest in the science, you'll want to check this fascination Web site.
Visualize Science Serious science buffs can lose themselves quickly in this deep thinking site that's heavy on show and tell discussions.
The Mars Society Invites you to perhaps boldly go where no one has gone before.
Fortean Times Is a magazine of what it describes as news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences
Scientific American Explorations

Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, Calif.
Coolest aquarium in the world
831-648-4888
Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles
Hordes of Ice Age saber-toothed cats, mastodons
323-934-7243
Meteor Crater near Flagstaff, Ariz.
Meteorite slammed into the rocky plains of northern Arizona
520-289-5898
Ashfall Fossil Beds, Royal, Neb.
Frozen moment in ancient time is way off the beaten path
402-893-2000
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.
Escape from the cold in the Human Body Gallery 651-221- 9444
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kilo, Hawaii
Home to Kilauea, the planet's most active volcano
808-985-6000
Dinosaur National Monument, Dinosaur, Colo.
Straddling the Utah-Colorado border, this "bone jam of history
435-781-7700
Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla.
If you've never seen a rocket launch, go and see one
321-452-2121
Boston Museum of Science
Used as a research tool in early atom-smashing
617-723-2500
The Very Large Array, near Socorro, N.M.
A supporting player in the Jodie Foster movie "Contact"
505-835-7000