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Analysis Finds Business Disasters Result From Mimicry

Innovation drives markets, but innovation without oversight can result in isomorphism, when one company's breakthrough money-maker turns out to be the downfall of whole industries, according to a leading business analyst.

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Growth in mortgage loan fraud, based on U.S. Department of the Treasury Suspicious Activity Report Analysis.

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NASA Research Yields Full Map of Antarctic Ice Flow

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First complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica, derived from radar interferometric data.

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NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins are Joined to Their Booster

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NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft are lowered onto the second stage of their Delta II launch.

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Webb Telescope Instrument Completes Cryogenic Testing

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The Mid-Infrared Instrument, a component of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, underwent alignment testing at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Space in Oxfordshire, England.

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Virtual Rat to Cure Human Diseases

The National Institutes of Health is investing $13 million in a Virtual Rat Project--not to save rats, but to develop analytics that cure human diseases.

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Researcher Daniel Beard of the Medical College of the University of Wisconsin

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Unusual Fault Pattern Surfaces in Earthquake Study

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This 3-D view of the surface rupture of the April 4, 2010, El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake (red line) reveals a new fault line connecting the Gulf of California with the Elsinore fault, which could become a major part of the boundary between the Pacific and the North America Plates.

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Synthetic Biology Redefining Life

Genetic engineering got an uptick recently when biologists began creating synthetic organisms that will henceforth compete with humans for natural resources, prompting a Presidential Commission to advise "prudent vigilance."

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The three pillars of Synthetic Biology according to the European Conference on Synthetic Biology.

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IntraLinks SaaS Community Roadmap Unveiled

Premiere business-to-business deal- and process-management SaaS maker IntraLinks reveals its roadmap for a transformation into a real-time collaboration network.

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IntraLinks' community-building efforts permit the user base to interact by maintaining profiles, contact lists and analytics regarding opportunities to participate in upcoming projects.

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XSEDE Cyber-Science to Exceed Teragrid

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) exceeds its predecessor--the Teragrid project--by linking the most advanced U.S. supercomputers into a cyber-infrastructure provisioned with simplified user-access software enabling researchers to address more diverse projects extraordinaire.

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XSEDE will create immersive 3D simulations like this one of a blowout similar to that which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico where "ribbons" of color indicate flows.

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Without Science, There Will Be No Civilization

We're in a situation, in which science has virtually died in the United States, and in Europe. The scientific technology is being destroyed, and therefore, we're in a situation in which we have to, by other means, revive and maintain physical science and its related things.