> I feel like this could be a big deal in science in general. People of different fields often do unnecessary extra work (as in reinventing the wheel) because t

> I feel like this could be a big deal in science in general. People of different fields often do unnecessary extra work (as in reinventing the wheel) because they're not aware that there's, say, 10 years of research on it. Maybe an introductory search in other fields is what required? Or heading to the library? Even in software engineering, we see people reinventing the wheel because they can't be bothered to read a computer science book.