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Published online 15 February 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060213-8
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The virtual world gets bigger
Tools set for use in three-dimensional modelling of everything from our anatomy to the Solar System.
Scientists are already using globe-imaging software such as Google Earth and other virtual globes to do amazing things with data about our planet and the things living on it.
Arctic researchers can use live data about both sea ice and the positions of walruses to answer questions about animal behaviour, for example, and to share that with the public (see 'The web-wide world'.
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