Articles periodically circulate online claiming that astronomical observations, sometimes referencing NASA, have “changed the zodiac” or invalidated astrological signs. These stories usually rely on...
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BASE: search millions of free academic papers in one place
BASE is a scholarly search engine run by Bielefeld University Library. It gathers records from university repositories and other trusted academic collections, then makes them searchable through a...
Open Library: a free online library that lets you borrow books like a real library
Open Library is a public, open catalog run by the Internet Archive. Its goal is simple, one web page for every book ever published. Anyone can search by subject, author, or lists, and readers can...
Goodreads: choose what to read next with help from friends
Goodreads is a large, free website made for people who read books. Its goal is simple, to help readers discover books they will enjoy and to get more out of reading. The company says it is the...
Free-eBooks.net: get free books (with a VIP plan for unlimited downloads)
Free-eBooks.net is a digital library for free reading. It hosts fiction, non fiction, academic titles, textbooks and classic literature. Readers also find audiobooks. The site groups books into...
Bookboon: a simple on demand library for workplace learning
"Access Bookboon" offers short eBooks, audio lessons, and live online classes that help people learn practical skills at work. Topics include leadership, communication, digital skills, and...
PDFBooksWorld: free online reading of public domain books, downloads need a paid membership
PDFBooksWorld is a digital library and publisher that focuses on books in the public domain, which means works whose copyrights have expired or do not apply. The site offers classic literature and...
Obooko: download free, legal ebooks with no fees
Obooko is a website where readers can download ebooks in English at no cost, in PDF, EPUB, or Kindle formats. Files are hosted on Obooko’s own servers, and each title is offered with permission from...
SpringerLink: access to more than 10 million scientific documents, books, articles, research protocols
SpringerLink is an online platform that brings together research journals, books, reference works and laboratory protocols, step by step methods used in experiments. It covers many subjects,...
Project Gutenberg: a library of 75,000 free classic books online, made by volunteers
Project Gutenberg is a long running online library that gives free access to classic books in digital form. It focuses on works in the public domain, meaning books that are no longer protected by...
Worldcat.org: a search for the contents of 20,000 worldwide libraries
Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need WorldCat is a global library catalog provided by OCLC, a nonprofit group that supports libraries. It connects the holdings of many libraries into...
RefSeek: a Web search engine for students and researchers
Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines. RefSeek is a Web search engine made for students and researchers. It aims to make academic information...
The self might be an illusion or a quantum process, say experts
We wake up every morning feeling like the same person who went to sleep the night before. We assume there is a single "I" behind our eyes - a pilot steering the body, making choices, and...
AI will speed up scientific research far more than most people expect
Google DeepMind’s Joëlle Barral argues that AI is about to change how science is done, not just how fast papers are read. She sees large language models as new research tools that can search across...
Stopping at a clear next step helps you finish work, as shown by classic psychology and a new “Hemingway effect”
Ernest Hemingway advised writers to stop when they are still going well and know what will happen next, so it is easy to start again the following day. Recent coverage explains how this simple rule...