(cross posted@The Lyceum Blog)

The giant just keeps on growing.   Google will now be getting into the Science research field by offering data storage to scientists:

The storage would fill a major need for scientists who want to openly share their data, and would allow citizen scientists access to an unprecedented amount of data to explore. For example, two planned datasets are all 120 terabytes of Hubble Space Telescope data and the images from the Archimedes Palimpsest, the 10th century manuscript that inspired the Google dataset storage project.