Web Watch

http://ie.lbl.gov/xray/mainpage.htm

Thanks to Gregory Rech of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and his collaborators, you can now use your Web browser to view the X-ray Spectrum of Elements on the Periodic Table. You can plot the fluorescent spectrum of each element or, if you prefer, the spectra of two elements simultaneously.

http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx.html

Bruce Irving of Optical Research Associates in Pasadena, California, has put together Optics for Kids, an educational Web site aimed at 6- to 11-year-olds. The site is structured around a series of questions, such as What’s cool about lasers? that lead to more detailed information elsewhere.

http://adswww.harvard.edu

With more than 2.8 million freely available abstracts, NASA’s Astrophysics Data System is the largest noncommercial database of scientific literature in the world. And, thanks to a collaboration with the American Physical Society, ADS, which is hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has recently gotten even bigger. Its core collection of astronomical abstracts and articles is now supplemented with abstracts from the various APS journals.

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