Essentially the app is a visually intuitive and engaging front end to content available on the internet. The name comes from a 360 degree wall of thumbnail images (and in some cases videos). One can drag to view the thumbnails, then click to select. Some of the images are truly awesome. Each image has a brief caption explaining the science or application. Clicking will hide the caption and show the complete image. A few of them are videos, including one on aspects of the physics of NFL football (mainly dealing with fluid loss).
"Science360 for iPad demonstrates the successful partnerships and platforms NSF has developed with NBC Learn and LiveScience.com as well as Science Nation, to communicate science and technology discoveries to a broader audience." The app is intended for the iPad, and is available free from the iTunes store. As it warns, the high resolution images and video are data intensive, so be cautious using this if you are on a wireless data plan and not Wifi.
For what it strives to do, it is intuitive and visually impressive. It is more a good place to occasionally browse, rather than to go specifically to learn or research a topic. I give it an overall rating of 8 (out of 10).
