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Exploratorium - menyediakan pelbagai projek untuk diuji
How Stuff Works - menerangkan bagaimana sesuatu berfungsi
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Rudimentsofwisdom - menyediakan ensaiklopedia sains yang unik
Biology4kids - rujukan biologi yang sangat menarik, mesti dilawati (subscription needed)
MySchoolNet - Web site khas untuk pelajar di Malaysia
Home Experiment - Anda boleh melakukan beberapa eksperimen yang sungguh menyeronokkan di rumah.
Stay Healthy - Jagalah kesihatan anda. Baca dengan lebih lanjut penyakit-penyakit dan cara pencegahan rawatannya
Astronomy.com - Khas untuk peminat bintang dan angkasa.

Cell Biology - Mempelajari lebih mendalam tentang sel (perlukan pendaftaran).

CrossWord - Membuat teka silang
physic classroom - Mempelajari fizik. Anda juga boleh melihat animasi momentum dalam multimedia fizik yang sungguh menarik.

pbs - Pelbagai Rencana.

Without the Moon, Would There Be Life on Earth?

The ocean tides mirror life itself. Their ebb and flow pay homage to the cyclic nature of the cosmos along even the most secluded seashores. But is life itself also ultimately a fluke of the tides? If so, life may ultimately owe its origins to our serendipitously large moon. The sun and wind also drive the ocean's oscillations, but it is the moon's gravitational tug that is responsible for the lion's share of this predictable tidal flux. Our current Earth–moon system, according to the prevailing theory of lunar formation, reflects our solar system's early game of planetary billiards, when colliding planetary embryos created entirely new versions of themselves—in the case of our own planet, a disproportionately large natural satellite in close orbit. It all started some 4.5 billion years ago when, as theory has it, our nascent Earth was blindsided by a Mars-size planetary embryo, believed to have spun Earth into its initial fast rotation of roughly 12 hours per day. The molten mantle thrown into orbit after the catastrophic lunar-forming impact quickly coalesced into our moon. Within a few thousand years, Earth cooled to an object with a molten surface and a steam atmosphere. Life emerged some 700 million years later, or about 3.8 billion years ago. But four billion years ago a cooling Earth already had an ocean, but remained barren. The moon was perhaps half as distant as it is now, and as a result, the ocean tides were much more extreme. At an average distance of 235,000 miles (380,000 kilometers), the moon is currently receding from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) per year. As it does, Earth's own spin rate is slowing. And, in the process, roughly three terawatts of gravitational energy is shed into pushing around the oceans annually. Over the eons, all that energy has had an evolutionary impact. "The oceans' tidal flow helps transport heat from the equator to the poles," says Bruce Bills, a geodynamicist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Without the lunar tides, it's conceivable that climate oscillations from the ice age to the interglacial would be less extreme than they are. Such glaciations caused migrations of animal and plant species that probably helped speed up speciation." Bills also points out that such tidal heat transfer could have also mitigated climate fluctuations. The problem in determining which "tidal forcing" scenario is correct, he says, is that climate researchers currently lack data spanning extremely long timescales. Even so, Peter Raimondi, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, says the tools of evolution are also driven by the tides' influence on these intertidal regions. "In a rocky intertidal area," Raimondi says, "it's very clear there are strong evolutionary pressures brought on by a changing environment over a short spatial scale. Without our moon, our marine environment would be much less rich in terms of species diversity." But is the influence of the lunar tides actually responsible for life itself? If life originated around deep ocean hydrothermal vents (so-called black smokers), then the lunar tides played a minor role, if any, says James Cowen, a biogeochemical oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. If, however, life originated in tidal waters, he says, then tidal cycles could have played a major role.

Today competition..

Menara aku punya group yg plg 'Cun' sekali.. 11/4/2009






Ari nie aku sekola.. ari sabtu.. boring botol.. tp ok jgk la sbb kat sekola ada bwt xtvt sempena minggu sains dan matematik kt sekola.. yg ats nie la hasil dari keje2 aku da pasukan yg lain.. kteorang kena bwt menara yg kukuh dan yg plg tinggi.. bahan yg diberi ialah kertas surat khabar dgn selotip jak.. huhu 1st bla aku dgn gna dua bahan 2 aku rasa blurr gle.. yeala.. jenoh r nk bwt menara gna dua bahan 2 jak.. dah la masa yg diberi cket jak.. dlm 40 minit jak.. susuh gle td..
memaNG RUMIT..

Menara aku la yg plg jelik dri yg semua.. huhu.. sgt tinggi drpda smua peserta tp xstabil.. gerak cket dah jatuh..
malu la td.. smua org gelak jak.. sbb menara kami da jatuh.. x kukuh sblm diuju oleh cikgu..
heee..
malu tahap minimun..
tp rasa mc nk trgelak la..


biarleee..

program kedua plak

kami kna bwt kapal selam..
just hanya guna bahan botol air.. plastesin.. guli.. gunting dgn plastik yg mcm strow..
tue jea la
hasilnya mcm yg bwh nie



sekian..