A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.

The beginning of an informative tutorial on antimatter, covering quarks, hadrons, baryons, mesons, leptons, and neutrinos.

Students examine x-ray crystallography. The resource explores the structure of the proteins specified by tens of thousands of newly sequenced genes. Additional resources are included.

A very interesting site about Seaborg. It contains quotes from him and about him, photographs, and a timeline.

Simple lab activity designed to show a property of polymers which gives them their strength.

This analogy story explains the manner in which the wavelength of light affects the maximum resolution of a microscope.

This particle physics tutorial discusses the different types of leptons: the electron, tau lepton, muon lepton, and neutrinos.

An introduction to the six different types of quarks: the up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom quarks.

An introduction to the Standard Model, a theory which attempts to explain atomic structure using leptons, quarks, and force carrier particles.

This page defines electromagnetic radiation. Included are links to more information.

This article, part of a particle physics tutorial site, explains and illustrates three kinds of quarks: hadrons, baryons, and mesons.