The OECD Factbook App presents 100 economic indicators in a format specially designed for smartphones. An easy way to access to a statistical picture of the world’s major economies from OECD.
Minds of Modern Mathematics is the app created by IBM to describe as mathematicians and mathematics have shaped the world we live. An interactive journey through the centuries (almost 1,000 years) to discover how mathematics has influenced music, science, art, architecture and culture.
The NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated mission information, images and videos and Twitter feeds from various online NASA sources in a mobile package. WiFi, 3G or Edge network connection required.
Jürgen Neffe spent 7 months circumnavigating the globe, in order to relive the most famous journey in scientific history: Charles Darwin's travels aboard HMS Beagle. Traveling by boat, camper van, plane, on horseback, and foot, the trained biologist sought out the places where Darwin had gathered the vital information that would lead to his revolutionary theory of evolution - and where his scientific heirs still study life forms today.
The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools - plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content - right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. You can rotate the molecules by moving your finger across the display, zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch gestures, or pan the molecule by moving two fingers across the screen at once. These structures can be viewed in both ball-and-stick and spacefilling visualization modes.
Waiting for Evolution Day 2012 celebrations at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano on February 10th, 11th and 12th (live streaming on Scienza in rete), it is easy and fun play with TimeTree.
PubMed is a free database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system. PubMed was first released in January 1996.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from 3 worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TED is owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)3 organization under US tax code. It was established in 1996 by Chris Anderson, who was at that time a magazine publishing entrepreneur.