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Access Excellence is an educational website aimed at teachers and younger students. The site contains recent news stories about scientific developements and health issues and offers suggestions and activities teachers can use in their classrooms.

The Human Radiation Experiments website is part of a government effort to provide greater access to information regarding the scope and purpose of experiments conducted by the government, often with out consent of the participants. This site holds 30 oral histories, more than 400 short experiment descriptions, primary documents, reports, and guides to collections. The site also offers photographs, short videos, and links. Although the site does contain vast amounts of material, one section of the site has been taken offline due to post-September 11 security concerns. These materials will be made available again after they have been screened for sensitive documents.

This fascinating site includes clips from more than 70 recently declassified nuclear weapons test films from the Department of Energy and Department of Defense archives. The films, originally recorded for public information, training, and data analysis purposes, document the history and development of nuclear weapons from the first bomb tested at Trinity Site in Southeast New Mexico in 1945 through the early 1970s. The site offers a series of short sample clips for each film and copies of the full-length films can be ordered through the site. Each film is accompanied by a 500-750-word description and contextualization of its contents. The films are listed in numerical groups, making the site somewhat complicated to navigate, though a keyword search engine and table of contents are available. This site is ideal for those studying the history of the American nuclear weapons program and weapons technology.

This companion site to a National Museum of American History exhibit explores the most famous work of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge's photographic studies of motion have been interpreted as scientific models, but the proofs included in the five exhibit sections suggest a more complex blending of art and science. "Capturing the Moment" tells the story of the commission by California Governor Leland Stanford to study the hooves on a galloping horse and Muybridge's resulting fame. "Muybridge in Motion" traces the University of Pennsylvania study of animal and human locomotion. "From Proof to Print" outlines the process and artistic nature of motion photography. "Sequences and Structures" describes the scientific principles of motion and sequential structure. "Epilogue" discusses Muybridge's influence on late-19th century visual culture and invites visitor comments. Each section offers a 750-word introductory essay and 10-12 images illustrating the scientific and artistic elements in Muybridge's work. The site also offers five links to related sites and a five-work bibliography. A disclaimer notifies parents and teachers that many subjects were photographed nude or semi-nude. This is an interesting site for those researching the place of photography in American science and culture.

This remarkably deep site describes the history of helicopters from Leonardo Da Vinci to the present. A drop down menu at the top of the screen provides menus of links to essays describing helicopter companies, chronologies of six periods in the history of helicopters, essays on the mechanics of helicopter flight and the military uses of helicopters. Images accompany the essays throughout and the site also includes a section devoted to sound, video and 3D clips. This site also creates a virtual community with chat rooms and a listserve, and provides a search engine for quick access to the large amount of information in this site. It is an Argentinian site, however, thus English grammar is not always perfect here.

This is an attractive corporate site. Features include biographies of the founders of Boeing, North American Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas and corporate histories of the three companies. Biographies include audio and video exhibits while histories of the four corporations include lengthy essays, biographical sketches of corporate figures and aeronautical engineers, and chronologies. The site also provides detailed information about the weaponry, aerospace vehicles, military and commercial aircraft produced by the three companies. and the front page is complemented by a photo gallery. Researchers looking for corporate archives will not find them here and will have to search through various pages in the www.boeing.com site.

This is a personal web page that features images and documents largely derived from NASA sources and repackaged in a fairly easy to use format. This sites begins with a chronology and moves through Appolo crews, images, diagrams and maps, hundreds of audio and audio-video clips, a simulation game and an area for a virtual community with yahoo sponsored listserves and a guestbook. This is a valuabe site for researchers looking for images and video clips. Other than brief descriptions that accompany images and clips, the site has no essays or articles. A left-side frame allows for easy navigation and most items tend to be in chronological order and so are fairly easy to find. The site does not have a search engine. The accompanying essay "Contact Light" is a personal reflection of the site's creator on the Appolo missions.

Vienna's Sigmund Freud Museum has created an attractive web site to compliment its bricks and mortar museum. The site includes information about lectures, conferences and exhibitions, the Sigmund Freud Society, funding for Freud-related research, a detailed chronology and a topography or physical geography of Freud. Online versions of the Museum's Newsletter and information about the library can also be found here. Essays about Freud's life, called "themes," include exhibits and articles about Freud's daughter Anna, his emigration from Austria, film and collecting antiquities. Notably the site also provides online video and audio clips of Sigmund Freud.