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The Electromagnetic Spectrum

NASA page about electromagnetic waves with descriptions of such waves and their uses.Covers radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet (UV), x-rays and gamma rays.

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http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/index.html

Cosmic Evolution

This is a fantastic site that covers more than just physics and tracks the history of our universe right from its beginnings. It has lots of information but also movies to watch and teacher resources.

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http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/

Cosmic variance

A blog written by a group of physicists and astrophysicists on the stuff that interests them: science but also arts, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/

Cosmicopia - space science

A wealth of info about the sun, the earth's magnetosphere, space weather, cosmic rays, solar wind etc

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http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Superheating - How Things Work

Some questions and answers relating to superheating in a microwave oven.

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http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/search.php?searchs=superheating&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&searchq=yes&searcha=

Exploding water

In this video mythbusters find out how likely it is that you could superheat water in your own microwave.

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http://www.videoizle.cc/NSWECft9LFiLw

CCMR - Ask a Scientist

Scientists from Cornell University answer questions on everything from why you can't put metal in a microwave to why gravity is called gravity.

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http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/ask/fvq.html

Radar, Police

RADAR speed detectors bounce microwave radiation off of moving vehicles and detect the reflected waves.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/radar.html#c1

Imagine the Universe

News about the latest discoveries using satellites launched by NASA e.g. The Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. This is all very up-to-date information on space-based ...

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http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Cecil F. Powell

Cecil F. Powell (1903 - 1969) developed photographic emulsions of increased sensitivity, to experiments on cosmic radiation. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950.

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1950/powell-bio.html
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