Report: Theft Of Digital Health Data More Often Inside Job

Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Electronic health data breaches are increasingly carried out by “knowledgeable insiders” bent on identity theft or access to prescription drugs, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Report: Theft of Digital Health Data More Often Inside Job

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Fukushima: First Photojournalist Inside Plant Captures Daily Life Of Cleanup Workers

25-year old Kazuma Obara (Twitter), a native of Japan's tsunami-hit Iwate prefecture, is the first photojournalist to enter the Fukushima Daiichi plant and photograph what conditions are like for the cleanup workers.

Fukushima: First photojournalist inside plant captures daily life of cleanup workers

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Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun

7. Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun

July 9

Dark matter and dark energy are always intriguing to our readers, especially any observable clues to their existence. This story about the idea that the sun could be a net for dark matter and alter how heat moves inside it in a way that would be observable from Earth is a perfect example.

Dark matter is the mysterious stuff that makes up about 83 percent of the matter in the universe, but doesn’t interact with electromagnetic forces. Although the universe contains five times as much dark matter as normal matter, dark matter is completely invisible both to human eyes and every kind of telescope ever devised. Current dark matter detectors are looking for WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, that connect only with the weak nuclear force and gravity.

But what if dark matter is much lighter than WIMPs, which annihilate each other on contact? They wouldn't eliminate each other and might be swept up by the sun. And because dark matter particles only interact with each other, ignoring regular matter, they have less stuff in their way and can transport heat more efficiently inside the sun.

Full story

Image: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory

Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun

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Making omelets inside the egg

Lenore and Windell, the Evil Mad Scientists, are national treasures. They are intensely curious amateurs who take great photos and produce well-written, funny, reports on their experiments. Today, they chronicle their quest to make an omelet inside an eggshell.

While it may not be possible to make omelettes without breaking eggs, it turns out that you actually can get pretty close. In what follows, we demonstrate some methods of making omelettes inside of eggshells. Perhaps a culinary equivalent of the ship in a bottle.

Making omelets inside of eggshells

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Making omelets inside the egg

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Inside the world's first transistor

I love prototype technology. There's a magic in seeing what the original working model looked like, which makes so many systems instantly more-understandable to a lay person. Strip away the perfection and packaging, and you can see what's really going on.

Inside the world's first transistor

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