Science is online: do not miss these disseminators, websites and scientific search engines

In the same way that the implementation of Internet made available to any knowledge related to design, literature and a wide range of disciplines, also approached science to everyone .A field in which the appearance of specific pages has been key, and in which the work of the so-called scientific disseminators has gained special relevance, especially in social networks.

These professionals have at their disposal a new set of tools on the web, ranging from academic articles to specific search engines .Today we collect some of those personalities, as well as those utilities that no researcher or lover of this discipline should miss.

Disclosure pages

We will start with the specific websites, collecting sites in both Spanish and English .Regarding the former, Xataka Ciencia, a specialized portal where they can accommodate from news related to health research to others about the supposed smell of planets and the like; Quo, the online version of the well-known magazine, which includes interviews, reports and more, and Very Interesting, slightly more varied than the previous one but similar.

Naukas- in humor key -, Principia-with a very different design-, Cienciaybiologia.com-specialized in health, astronomy, biology, earth, chemistry and similar subjects-, Research and Science-the edition in our language of the journal Scientific American-, Sinc-a specialized news agency in Science-and the specific sections of media such as El Pais, El Mundo and ABC.Nor can we miss the website of the CSIC, the Sociological Center for Scientific Research.

Science is online: do not miss these disseminators, websites and scientific search engines

In TED we find thousands of talks about concrete research in both languages, and the journals Nature and Science are postulated as the great references of this sector .Other interesting pages are those of Science Alert-a medium Australian that collects the main scientific news of the moment and that has a very notable section of videos-, Phys.org-a little more varied-, Newcientist-with a trajectory dating back to 1956-and Science Daily-from whose articles Those related to stem cells and global warming stand out-and for documentary lovers, nothing like Documentary Heaven.

Scientific disseminators

Science is online: do not miss these disseminators, websites and scientific search engines

Regarding scientific disseminators, we are left with Jose Manuel Lopez Nicolas , who addresses those questions that everyone has ever asked themselves through their own space: Scientia.They also collaborate on programs televisions and on the radio.

But it is not elusive to which we can listen, being recommended Ultraviolet Catastrophe, a portal sponsored by the Chair of Scientific Culture of the UPV/EHU and the Euskampus Foundation that also tries to bring science to the listeners., by Angel Rodriguez Lozano, are similar.

Francis R.Villatoro-physicist, mathematician and regular contributor to La Rosa de los Vientos-, Cesar Tome Lopez-participates in online media such as Notebook of Scientific Culture, Science and many others-, Javier Armentia Fructuoso-astrofisico and Director of Planetarium of Pamplona-, Clara Grima-with her section in Xplora Science-, Jose Miguel Mulet-focused on transgenics-, Pepe Cervera -Retiario-, and Joaquin Sevilla-with her blog Science in the bar and his remarkable interviews-they are more than remarkable.

Outside of our borders it is worth mentioning Ed Yong, who writes in media such as The Atlantic , National Geographic, and The Wired; GrrlScientist, journalist for The Guardian; Eric Holthaus, WSJ columnist; Vsauce and his fun YouTube channel; and Brady Haran, reporter and filmmaker.

The academic search engines

Science is online: do not miss these disseminators, websites and scientific search engines

For those who wish to spin more finely, or simply be students or researchers, there are still more specific resources.We are referring to specialized academic search engines, such as Science Research (although it is still in the testing phase, integrates a capable technology to avoid duplication, verify the information and select the most useful one) and HighBeam Research (with a database behind it that includes specialized journals, research , books, scientific publications and large media).

Science is online: do not miss these disseminators, websites and scientific search engines

Also noteworthy is iSEEK-which goes to the resources of universities and NGOs-, ERIC-a virtual library created by the US government with an extensive bibliography and thesaurus included-, Biology Browser-de Reuters and designed for researchers specialized in this branch of science-, and RefSeek-with resources of encyclopedias , online media, magazines, studies and books-.

We can not fail to mention either Academia.edu-a kind of community where many scientists publish their research-, Jurn-an engine with more than three thousand specialized magazines behind them-, Theseus-of the Ministry of Education , Culture and Sports, with data aces from CSIC, Openair, Redalyc and Scielo-and to World Wide Science-with content from around the world and a filter system that is welcome-.

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