iPhone apps and science go hand in hand. Maybe you need to quickly refer to the Periodic Table, or perhaps you need help with your solubility calculations. Whether you are planning for a career in science or you just need to pass a science class in college, here are 10 iPhone apps you shouldn’t be without. Photo by: Okko Pyykko on Flickr Creative Commons 1. Chemical Elements (Free) This chemistry app is a versatile reference tool that presents a list of the elements in portrait mode. Flip it to landscape, and it turns into a touchable periodic table. You can sort elements by atomic number or alphabet. Common features of the elements are given with some with photos. 2. Atom in a Box ($9. 99) This physics app displays an interactive, visual representation of what a hydrogen atom looks like via real-time rendering of its electrons’ orbitals. See the three-dimensional states that the electron occupies in hydrogen. View animations and mathematical descriptions of all 140 eigenstates up to the n=7 energy level. Even if you are not familiar with Quantum Mechanics, it still looks cool, and your friends will think you are smart. 3. Get All the Science (Free) This news aggregator app gives you up-to-date news from the science industry. Stay on top of the latest stories with news feeds from “Nature,” “New Scientist” and several other interesting science publications, all in one place. 4. Uranus ($9. 99) This is a must-have if you are taking astronomy, but it’s also a good prop for romantic evening strolls if you want to impress your date. With a database of over 100,000 stars, planets, galaxies and more, this GPS-enabled app acts as a guide to the night sky wherever you happen to be standing on Earth. 5. Genetic Decoder (Free) Biology students, behold the Genetic Decoder app. Simply tap your mobile device to change RNA codons, and the corresponding amino acid information will be displayed. You can browse information by selecting an amino acid from the list. All amino acid and molecules are represented with colorful pictures. 6. Starmap ($11. 99) Another pocket planetarium app, Starmap is designed for more advanced star gazers as it provides a fully portable way of locating stars, planets, constellations, meteor showers and deep-field objects in the night sky. Calibrate your location or use iPhone’s GPS feature to toggle between north-, east-, south-, and west-view sky charts. 7. Equivalence ($3. 99) Equivalence is the ultimate conversion tool. Designed for engineers, the Equivalence iPhone app converts all sorts of measurements such as temperature, mass, volume and currency. Tilt your iPhone/iPod on its side and get the equivalence calculator. 8. Spacetime 4. 0 ($24. 95) Algebra and calculus students, rejoice. Touted as the most powerful mathematics and graphing program, Spacetime 4. 0 allows you to graph 2D and 3D function, parametric, spherical and cylindrical plots. Rotate, pinch and move 3D graphs in real-time. Spacetime also performs both numeric and symbolic algebra and calculus (including some advanced functions) and supports scripting. 9. Epocrates RX (Free) This app is sure to please medical students and hypochondriacs alike. With this pocket pharmacy, you can look up more than 3,300 drugs, including pill pictures, infectious disease treatment guides, medical calculators, a commonly-used pregnancy wheel, unit conversions and more. It is said that doctors use this app. So why not get one yourself to make sure your busy doctor isn’t missing anything? 10. iCut DNA (4. 99) This app allows you to search the Restriction Enzyme Database (REBASE) for enzymes and the DNA nucleotide sequences they cleave. Find commonly used (type II) restriction enzymes by name or by specifying the recognition sequence. Information from the database for each enzyme includes references, suppliers, isoschizomers and methylation site. April Lentini writes for apartmentguide. com
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A Career within the Science Industry
December 20th, 2009ght (c) 2009 Ianson Internet Marketing
Science careers are interesting, varied and are ever increasing. Science is knowledge that is attained from study, practice and analyzing. Science actually is a system of acquiring knowledge. It is a system that observes and experiments to help define and explain the natural phenomena that surround all of us. Science is popular for many reasons but the most popular and attractive reason and purpose of science is to produce useful models of reality.
Those who are attracted to careers in science display similar character traits, ambitions and abilities necessary to enjoy and succeed in these areas. In order to find and succeed in any science career one much have or acquire the technical abilities needed for the job, and a passion for the scientific area chosen. It also helps to have excellent interpersonal skills, be ambitious and strive to do an excellent job, every time. In addition, the following traits and skills such as being highly motivated, organized, being able to work well with teams, having leadership skills, being able to multi-task, and a solid sense of business skills, helps greatly when seeking a science career.
There are many science careers. Some of these careers are: sports science, computer science, political science, health science, animal science, life science, and social science. Other top science careers are: library science, marine science, earth science, food science, human science, biomedical science, human science, math and science, and information science.
In fact, there are almost as many science careers as there are career options.
Biology, for some, is the most popular of science careers because of its many interesting, much needed and comprehensive subject topics such as: evolution, genetics, ecology, immunology, population dynamics, toxicology and zoology.
Applied sciences is the application of knowledge from a scientific field and used to solve problems. Engineering is an example of an applied knowledge.
Additional examples of science careers are landscape gardener,one who deals with garden design, forester—forestry commission, chemical engineer—dealing with oil and metal refining, seismologist—research and monitoring earthquake regions, medical researchers—studying cancer, stem cells, fertility treatment, food scientist—dealing with nutrition, food additives, chocolate and wine, veterinary assistant archaeologist—working in museums and job investigations, computer programmer and paper manufacturer.
Where to find vacancies when seeking a science career is highly important. Many science employers advertise their needs on specialist Job Boards and Job Sites. Other ways where you can find science job vacancies are with recruitment fairs, on-campus presentations, vacancy bulletins and recruitment agencies.
By: Louise G
