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Resources for researchers, PhD students et al.!
Lots of resources are available over the Internet for the curious student ( irrespective of age and qualification). Following is only the tip of an iceberg, among many!
Videos, demonstrations and more:
Information is no longer confined to brownish pages of books, and is alive and moving as videos! Here are a few links to lecture and demonstration videos etc. on science.


Prof. Sprott's Wonders of Physics demonstration series


Books, classics, articles to read and behold!:
It often takes a lot to really understand what research is, and how it should be done. There are no hard and fast rules, yet much sensible stuffs on it have been spoken and written over years by masters of the art. Most of these can be read online.

Threat to Glory- Peter Medawar
Advice for a Young Investigator- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
A Guide to Increased Creativity in Research--Inspiration or Perspiration?-  Craig Loehle
Students' Guide to Research- Dennis Bernstein
Four golden lessons- Steven Weinberg
The importance of stupidity in scientific research- Michael Schwartz

Tougher ones----------------------
The unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics in the natural sciences - Eugene Wigner

Articles across the Web:
Few articles scattered across the WWW on science, research and the related! And of course, unsolicited but excellent advices for researchers!

http://stearnslab.yale.edu/some-modest-advice-graduate-students
http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures - An Illustrated Guide to PhD
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm - by Richard Feynman
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ees.2016.0223- Marc Edwards
Srinivas Akella: Advice on Research
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/- Nobel Laureate T'Hooft's advice to young theoretical physicists, including suggested books/resources.
Aaron Clauset's advice for young scholars (PhDs)

 
Behind science-Blogs on science related issues:
Doing good research is not just about thinking and discovering. These blogs let us be aware of issues, conflicts etc. across the process of scientific discovery and dissemination.

Scientia Salon
Backreaction
Starts with a bang
Not even Wrong
Tim Gowers's blog on mathematical stuffs
Scholarly Kitchen on scientific publishing, plagiarisms, retraction, open access etc.
Alan Sokal  on science, philosophy and the like.


Useful Blogs/websites you can follow:
Follow these sites for a regular dose of inspiration, wisdom and wit :)

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/ Blog of Prof. Terrence Tao, with lots of valid advice on research from a child prodigy.
http://phdcomics.com/comics.php - a comic strip 
Improbable Research 

http://theyoungbiologist.blogspot.in/
Azimuth
Tobias J. Osborne's research notes | quantum information theory, condensed matter physics, and mathematical physics

Science and Technology Digests:
For those in need of daily feed of scientific advances, here are a few good places to visit!
http://anusandhan.net/index.jsp An one stop portal for all info on Indian S&T, including newsfeed.
Nautilus
http://phys.org/
WIRED
https://www.quantamagazine.org/
http://questmagazine.in/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/
http://jeffwise.net/
Phenomena - A science salon hosted by National Geographic Magazine
Kukuruku / Technology Hub 
Science DigestS Los Alamos National Laboratory
Science Reporter Engineering Watch | India's most prestigious magazine dedicated to Engineering Community
Welcome to Khagol Mandal 

In Languages other than English:
Home - Gonit Sora
 
Miscellaneous

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/%7Eoded/essays.html
PhDTree: academic genealogy & family tree
LIST OF STANDALONE JOURNALS | Scholarly Open Access
Life in IISc
ArvindGuptaToys Books Gallery 
Directory of Open Access Journal

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