Web watch

To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.physicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day

http://www.exploratorium.edu/poles

To celebrate the International Polar Year, the Exploratorium in San Francisco has created an online exhibition called Science from the Poles. The exhibition offers several live webcasts from Antarctica. Topics include the ANDRILL project, which aims to extract ice cores, and the 10-meter South Pole Telescope, which aims to find distant clusters of galaxies through their effect on the microwave background.

athome.web.cern.ch

CERN is emulating SETI@home , ClimatePrediction.net , and other distributed software projects. LHC@home uses surplus, donated computing power to model high-energy interactions inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The computer infrastructure needed to run LHC@home will also be used by particle physicists worldwide to analyze data when LHC turns on next year.

http://www.capjournal.org

Communicating astronomy to the public is the ambit of CAPjournal, a new quarterly journal published by the International Astronomical Union. The online journal is free. Among the papers in the inaugural issue is “Astronomy in Second Life,” which examines the presence of astronomy in the popular virtual world Second Life.