Some interesting examples of science being done in Second Life. It's fine to use a virtual world as a social environment, but how can we construct virtual 3D labs to use for collaborative science? The only examples I have seen live is IBM's virtualization of proteins, and a visualization of starts in 3D. mainly useful for instruction, rather than experimentation. I think there is still some possibilities for exploring other kinds of 3D visualization. If the manipulation of point-of-view could be made more natural. At the right, an avatar explores a virtual 3D portion of the stellar neighborhood. Below, IBM's protein display at Almaden labs. 
Update (from the comments): Chemistry in Second Life.
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Jean-Claude Bradley and I have been doing a lot of collaborative chemistry in second life activities.
-Hiro
Thanks for the excellent example Hiro, keep us informed about your progress.
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