Quakes shake the Web
Forget the notion of researchers toiling away alone in the lab, or maybe with a couple of graduate students, on the way to producing journal articles recapping their findings.
In the future, they may conduct experiments with colleagues a thousand miles away, even across the world; share findings in real time while simultaneously communicating with each other; and leave behind a searchable library of raw data for others to tap – all pretty much from the familiar setting of a Web browser.
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