ASU Web Page - Main Angelo State University web page.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Main departmental web page.
American Chemical Society - Student-run local section of the national ACS organization.

Organizations, Magazines and Journals

American Chemical Society - National organization of chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, and other chemistry-related professionals. Includes links to many of the most important scientific journals in the field of chemistry.
Science (AAAS) - Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science is one of the most prestigious journals in science.
Scientific American - A good monthly magazine that covers lots of interesting topics in science. (Only selected contents from the magazine are available at the web site.)
Natural History - A good monthly magazine that has lots of articles relating to biology, evolution, astronomy, and other things in the natural world. The monthly "Universe" column by Neil deGrasse Tyson is particularly good. (Only selected contents from the magazine are available at the web site.)
Skeptical Inquirer - A monthly magazine for people with really inquiring minds.

Periodic Tables

WebElements - A great online periodic table, with lots of information about each element, printable periodic tables, and periodic table applications for Windows, Mac, and Palm platforms.
Visual Elements - A visually unique interpretation of the periodic table, with a lot of fascinating information about the elements.
The Periodic Table of Comic Books - Exploring the connection between chemistry and comic books (yes, there really is one).
Chemical and Engineering News - For the 80th anniversary of Chemical and Engineering News, the American Chemical Society published an entire issue devoted to the periodic table, with essays on each element.
NEW! Animated Periodic Table - A flash-based periodic table that displays information about each element.
NEW! Periodic Tables - A huge list of periodic tables available on the Web.
NEW! Tom Lehrer's Periodic Table song - A song by Tom Lehrer (to the tune of "A Modern Major General" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance) that lists all of the elements that were known at the time, with a terrific flash-based animation by Mike Stanfill
NEW! Metallium, Inc. - Rare, Exotic Metals and Elements Samples - If you're into collecting element samples.
NEW! TheodoreGray.com - A web page set up by Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research, Inc., who has assembled a gigantic collection of photographs of samples of the elements. He also sells letter- and poster-sized versions of "The Most Beautiful Periodic Table Poster in the World" here.

Demonstrations

Doctor Slime - The name says it all.
Can Crush Demo with a Real Life Example - See a railroad tank tar crushed by steam!
Science Is Fun in the Lab of Shakhashiri - Web page of Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the master of chemical demonstrations.
Delights of Chemistry - Web page of chemistry demonstrations at the University of Leeds

Drawing and Modeling Software

RasMol - A great program for viewing 3D chemical structures in PDB format.
RasMol and OpenRasMol - This page has a more recent version of the RasMol program.
Chime - A great 3D structure viewing tool from MDL Information Systems, Inc.

Structures

ChemFinder - An archive of structures, physical properties, and hazard information for chemicals, searchable by name (IUPAC or trivial), molecular formula, or molecular weight; from CambridgeSoft, makers of ChemDraw and Chem3D.
Organic Compounds Database - A searchable archive of information about organic compounds.
Chime Resources - Interesting molecular structures created for use with the Chime viewing program.
Molecular Models - A page of molecular structures from Okanagan University College.
Indiana University Molecular Structure Center - Lots of molecular structures from Indiana University.
The Molecule of the Month - Links to information on interesting molecules at various universities and commercial sites.
Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names - Information about molecules with weird names like moronic acid, curious chloride, traumatic acid, constipatic acid, betweenanenes, furfuryl furfurate, diurea, and lots more.

Organic Chemistry Resources

ChemPen - Classic Organic Reactions - A large list of named organic reactions, from Acetoacetic Ester Condensation to Zinke-Suhl Reaction.
DNA from the Beginning - A great tutorial on the basics of genetics.
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide - A collection of links to various organic chemistry resources.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - Everything you ever wanted to know about naming organic compounds, but were afraid to ask.

Miscellaneous Chemistry Resources

Chemistry animations and movies on the World Wide Web - Links to animations and movie files demonstrating chemistry concepts, reactions, and demonstrations from all over the world.
Skunk Defensive Secretion - Everything you ever wanted to know about skunk spray and its chemistry.

Science Humor

Science Jokes Archive - Exactly what it says: thousands of jokes relating to every imaginable field of science.
Science Humor - Lots of science jokes.
Strange Matter - A collection of mostly science-related cartoons by Nick D. Kim.

Science-Related Web Sites

Bad Science - Challenging false explanations of scientific phenomena that abound in popular opinion, newspapers, television, and the classroom.
What's New by Bob Park - A column on science-related issues by Robert L. Park, of the American Physical Society.
The Skeptic's Dictionary - An exhaustive on-line survey of "questionable therapies, eccentric beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions" by Robert T. Carroll.
The Talk.Origins Archive - A great archive of articles posted by contributors to the Talk.Origins newsgroup, presenting mainstream scientific responses to common creationist arguments.
Bob Riggins's Page - A good selection of science essays, by R. J. Riggins. (The one entitled "Lessons NOT To Learn in School" is especially good.
Froguts.com - A virtual dissection of a frog.
Atomic Archive - A history of the science and politics behind the Manhattan Project.

Space, the Final Frontier

The Project Apollo Archive - Thousands of pictures, many of very high quality, from the Apollo moon missions.
HubbleSite - Main site for pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hubble Heritage Project - Picture from the archives of the Hubble Space Telescope, updated each month.
SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - Here comes the Sun. (It's all right.)
NASA - Main site for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Mars Exploration Rover Mission - NASA's page with the latest transmissions from the Mars Rovers.
NASA Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn - NASA's page of the latest transmissions from the Cassini-Huygen probe, now in orbit around Saturn.

Some Things That Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Chemistry

Project Gutenberg - More online books than you can shake a stick at.
The Straight Dope - Archive of the question-and-answer column by Cecil Adams.
Barking Spider - A collection of humorous articles and lists.

TheOneRing.net - Forged by and for fans of J. R. R. Tolkien.
lordoftherings.net - The official web site of the New Line Cinema production of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
Complete Map of Middle Earth - An Adobe Acrobat document containing a detailed, high-resolution map of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-Earth.
The Encyclopedia of Arda - An interactive encyclopedia of Middle-Earth.

Psi Phi - A good source of information about what's new in Star Trek. [not that there is anything new any more — grrr!]
Trek Nation - The latest headlines from the world of Star Trek; updated daily.

Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages - A page of incredible visual illusions by Akiyoshi Kitaoka at Ritsumeikan University.

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Please notify me if any of these links are broken or changed.