Science Apps

So I downloaded some free sciency applications for my Ipod touch and I thought I might do a little review for some of them!

I have had the 'How Stuff Works' app for a while now and I literally cannot express my love of this website and app enough! Anyone who ever has to write a science essay or just casually wonders about things needs this app! It is so much easier to get a straight answer from this rather than trawling through countless websites from Google.

Today I downloaded the NASA app and it is packed full of great stuff! I'm sure that one day this will be an invaluable resource for some kind of project but that is all I would recommend it for - use it when you need it, there is too much for just casually looking through! I was intrigued by the sighting opportunities section though! However it turns out that I will have to be getting up about 3-4am for any actual sightings of a shuttle or the international space station!

I also downloaded the Science Glossary @Visionlearning and it has a random option in which it gives you a random science word from its dictionary and the definition. For example I have now learnt that Nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA made of a nitrogen base, a 5-carbon sugar and one or more phosphate groups.  However this might be of a more productive use when completing glossaries for next years modules.

The final one for today was one called Space Images which is REALLY cool! My favourite so far is this one of Andromeda:

If you have any App recomendations that would be really cool!