Daily Diamond - Scent-sational Bubble Technology

A team of scientists from Bristol University have created a revolutionary new kind of technology that they have described as a “chrono-sensory mid-air display systems”: SensaBubble.

A bubble cannon that looks similar to a funnel sucks in a sort of scented fog from a pipe at the back of the......
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Daily Diamond - Primark's Global Domination

During the recession, Primark was one of the retailers in the UK that has made it possible for someone to buy new clothes, without having to worry about how much money was being spent. With something for all ages, and very affordable prices, Primark’s allure helped it to become one of the......
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Daily Diamond - Spare Asthma Inhalers to be Kept in Schools

Asthma is pretty common – everyone seems to know someone who is asthmatic, or had the condition when they were a child. In the UK, around one in 12 adults and one in 11 children suffer from asthma. It is treated easily enough, usually with a little blue inhaler, but what happens if you......
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Daily Diamond - Stolen Painting Found on EBay Returned to Owners

A painting depicting Jesus ascending into Heaven that was stolen from a church in Poland and was later found to be for sale in online auction website, eBay, has finally been returned to its rightful owners.
The aptly named Ascension of Christ was painted in the 18th century and went missing from......
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Daily Diamond - Monkeys Doing Maths

In further proof that monkeys are much like people and that we can learn a lot about the development of the human brain through them, a study recently carried out by Harvard Medical School has shown that not only can monkeys do maths, they also make the same little mistakes as we do. The......
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Daily Diamond - Welfare of Children Finally at Centre of Family Court

A new, single Family Court has been formed to replace the three-tiered system currently in place in England and Wales, with ministers agreeing that the welfare of the children involved should be at the very core of the system.
Family Courts deals with adoption cases, child abduction, divorce,......
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Daily Diamond - Stephen's Story: Dying Teenager Raises £1.5M for Charity

Last month, we told you about Alisa’s Butterflies, an 18-year-old girl’s Bucket List that went viral. Another teenager with terminal cancer has made his own list, and in the process has managed to raise more than one and a half million pounds for charity.
Stephen Sutton, 19 and from......
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Daily Diamond - Boy Spends Savings on His Community Instead of PS4

Whoever goes around muttering about children these days having the wrong kinds of attitude and behaviour has obviously not met Hector Montoya, a nine-year-old boy from Grand Prairie in Texas, in the US.
Like any boy his age, Hector really wanted a PlayStation 4 and was saving up the money so he......
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Daily Diamond - Auction of the Only Letter of the Titanic

The sinking of RMS Titanic is something we are all vaguely familiar with, if only because of the Oscar-winning film that portrayed the disaster. What is less known is that a letter, the only one known to have been written on board the ship on that very same fateful day, has managed to survive......
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Daily Diamond - Weekend Boxes: Kids' Weekends Reinvented

Every parent knows that sometimes there just isn’t enough time on the weekends to do everything you weren’t able to get done during the week, while at the same time being able to spend time with your children and thinking up exciting things for them to do. Andy Stephenson, 25, thinks he......
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Daily Diamond - EPT Twice-Winner Makes Poker History

The European Poker Tour, or EPT, is a series of poker tournaments that take place throughout Europe during the season. The tour began in September 2004, and since then there have been ten seasons consisting of a total of 98 tournaments, the most recent of which concluded in Sanremo, Italy, on 20......
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Daily Diamond - Birds are Cleverer Than We Give Them Credit For

When thinking of a birds’ nest, the image that usually springs to mind is a wonderful concoction of twigs and leaves, magically woven together and resting between the branches of a leafy tree.
However, there are actually many different kinds of nest, made from a huge variety of materials.They......
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Daily Diamond - Diamond Hunter Makes Generous Gesture

As you can probably imagine, somewhere called the Crater of Diamonds State Park is a popular attraction for Arkansas in the US. Visitors can spend the whole day searching for diamonds in a plowed field that was once a volcanic crater. The best bit: if you find something, you get to keep......
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Daily Diamond - NHS Improves - Other UK Countries Close Performance Gap

A study by the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation has found that the NHS has improved throughout the UK over the last 20 years, and though England is still performing slightly better than the other nations, the gap is certainly narrowing at an astonishing rate.
The study took three years......
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Daily Diamond - Helping Pandas to Conceive and Overcome Depression

Tian Tian resides at Edinburgh Zoo and is the only female panda in the UK, but it seems she is feeling the pressure because for the third year in a row she has failed to mate with her male companion, Yang Guang. But it’s nothing to worry about because she has been given a helping hand –......
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Daily Diamond - Google Takes to the Skies

Google and Facebook seem to be in some sort of battle in which both companies are striving to prove they are the best, and now they are taking it to the next level – mid-flight.
In an announcement made on Monday, Google declared that they were joining forces with drone maker Titan......
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Daily Diamond - Fans Create Games of Thrones Interactive Map

Game of Thrones has taken the world by storm, with an active international fan base for both the novels and TV show, who now can plot the path of their favourite character with an interactive map that has recently been unveiled.
The fantasy drama, originally the A Song of Ice and Fire series by......
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Daily Diamond - The Bradley Timepiece: A Watch for Everyone - Even the Blind!

Some people consider their wristwatch to be an extension of themselves, while others deem their watch the ultimate fashion accessory. But given these two statements, watches for visually impaired people are few and far between, and more functional than fashionable.
Enter, the Bradley Timepiece.......
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Daily Diamond - Welsh Football Teams in PL Top Disabled Facilities Survey

The two Welsh football teams in the Premier League, Swansea City and Cardiff City, are among the top three stadiums that provide disability facilities for their supporters at matches.
Swansea City tops the list with its Liberty Stadium, providing wheelchair users with 252 spaces, as well as......
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Daily Diamond - Iron Max: Make-A-Wish Helps Boy to Fly

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be your favourite superhero, if only for a day? An eight-year-old boy from Nebraska in the US wished he could fly like Iron Man, and thanks to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, his dream came true.
Make-a-Wish’s mission is to be able to give children......
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Daily Diamond - Sainsbury's Innovative Easter Recycling Scheme

Sainsburys pledged to become more energy efficient, to recycle whatever it can or transform waste into energy. Last year’s Christmas card recycling proved a huge success for the retailer, with collection boxes in over 1,000 stores across the country.
Proceeds from the recycling scheme, which......
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Daily Diamond - Organ Donations Doubled Since 2007

The number of people who donated their organs in Scotland has nearly doubled since 2007/2008, according to figures from the Scottish government.
Six years ago, only 54 people across the whole of Scotland donated their organs after they died, but last year almost twice that – 106 people......
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Daily Diamond - Mini Winnie: Britain's First Cloned Canine

Most of us have been there: loving a pet like family, because that is what they become to us, and then suffering through the devastation of them passing away. But what if, when that animal leaves this world, we could have it back? What if we could start over with an identical cat or dog or......
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Daily Diamond - College to Tackle Forced Marriage and "Honour" Crimes

In the first of its kind programme, Derby College in the East Midlands is raising awareness and fighting back against forced marriage and so-called honour crimes.
The college is working with Karma Nirvana, a charity set up by former student Jasvinder Sanghera that is dedicated to helping the......
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Daily Diamond - Price War Giving Customers Cheaper Energy Bills

For the first time in years, domestic bills for gas and electricity have fallen to less than £1,000 thanks to a price war that has broken out between some of the smallest suppliers in the UK.
At the moment, the biggest and most well-known energy suppliers, known as the ‘Big Six’ (British......
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Daily Diamond - Can Electricity be the Cure for Paralysis?

Three years ago, a combined team of researchers from the Universities of Louisville in Kentucky and California reported the amazing news of a paralysed man regaining movement into his legs. Rob Summers had been severely injured in a hit-and-run accident, but after implanting a device that zaps......
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Daily Diamond - Nirvana and Kiss Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Less than a week after the 20th anniversary of frontman Kurt Cobain’s death, grunge band Nirvana has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Every year, a handful of performers are inducted into the Hall after a committee of rock and roll historians selects names to be voted on by......
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Daily Diamond - UK Legalises HIV Self-Testing Kits

In 1992, after the 1980s HIV epidemic appeared to be at an end, HIV self-testing kits were banned because of worries that people would be testing positive and wouldn’t have access to the counselling and treatment that they might have had if they had been tested at a hospital or clinic.
Then,......
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Daily Diamond - 45-Year-Old Letters Finally Make it Home

Letters posted and intended for their recipient in 1969 have finally made it home, to the hands of 64-year-old retired NYPD worker Susan Heifetz, from Brooklyn in New York.
Susan received a telephone call a couple of weeks ago from a man who now lives in an apartment that she and her family had......
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Daily Diamond - A New Approach to Sex Education

Sex education is important, but it’s a difficult subject to tackle with teenagers without them tittering or becoming mortally embarrassed. The lessons also don’t seem to cover some of the more important aspects of the topic, such as love, intimacy, consent, or how to overcome the false......
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Daily Diamond - Addicts Rewarded With Shopping Vouchers For Staying Clean

In a trial of almost 700 heroine addicts, shopping vouchers for supermarkets will be awarded if the user is able to stay clean or if they complete a course of vaccinations. The trial follows a smaller study from the King’s College London that suggests financial incentives encourage drug users......
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Daily Diamond - Famous Dinosaur Track Reconstructed in 3D

A famous track of a dinosaur chase excavated and broken up almost 75 years ago has been digitally reconstructed in 3D so that the whole thing can be viewed as a whole for the first time since then and published their work in PLOS ONE.
Around 112 million years ago, two dinosaurs made their way......
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Daily Diamond - Ketamine to Fight Depression?

Depression is more common that you might think, affecting around one in 10 people at some time in their lifetime. Some people suffering from depression do so for many years, even decades, with no medication or therapy helping to alleviate their symptoms.
But in a small recent study of 28......
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Daily Diamond - Bank Payments Made Easier: Use Your Mobile!

The Payments Council, who is responsible for making sure payment services work in the UK, has announced that bank customers will be able to make payments directly into bank accounts using their mobile phone from the end of this month, in a new scheme called ‘Paym’ (pronounced “Pay......
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Daily Diamond - The Wondrous Creation of a Synthetic Chromosome

It has only been four years since the first ever synthetic chromosome for bacteria was created in a lab by Dr Craig Venter, who has managed to built it out of chemicals, assembled inside yeast. Today, yeast has played another important role in the play known as genetic engineering, as scientists......
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Daily Diamond - The Flea Market Fabergè Egg

Forget chocolate eggs, let’s talk Fabergè this Easter… Created by Peter Carl Fabergè and his company between 1885 and 1917, the most famous of these Easter Eggs are arguably those created for the Russian Tsar Alexander III and his son Nicholas II for them to give to the women in their......
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Daily Diamond - WrestleMania XXX: The Thirtieth Year of Awesome

WrestleMania XXX: possibly the most anticipated wrestling event since, well, WrestleMania XX. WrestleMania itself is definitely one of the events of the year that fans the world over wait for with bated breath (and in the case of non-US enthusiasts, lots of caffeine!).
The whole weekend is a big......
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Daily Diamond - Skin Cancer Gene Mutation Discovered, Could Lead to Better Screening

Genomics’ scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, a village in South Cambridgeshire in England, think they have found a way of understanding the hereditary risk of skin cancer, and have published their findings in Nature Genetics.
A mutation to a gene known as POT1......
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Daily Diamond - Japan UN-Court-Ordered to Halt Whaling

In a triumphant move for conservationists seeking to protect whales from unnecessary threat, Japan has been banned from whaling in the Southern Ocean until their programme has been redesigned, by the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The ICJ is made up of 15 judges, as......
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Daily Diamond - New Coal Deposits Found in the North Sea

There are always horror stories about how quickly we are using up the world’s resources, especially about coal, possibly the most versatile of the fossil fuels. Coal is the largest electricity-generating energy source in the world, with almost every country – and every continent except......
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Daily Diamond - English Kids Among Best Problem-Solvers in the World

Over the past few months, after the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessments) test results were published, England and the rest of the UK have been a little disappointed with how their 15-year-olds rank in maths, reading and science, when compared with the rest of the world. Quite......
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Daily Diamond - Pink Planet Discovered

In our solar system, beyond Pluto, is a theoretical area of space known as the Oort Cloud. A recent discovery a shown that in this ‘hypothetical’ region of space dwells a small, pink frozen planet 3.5% the size of Earth.
‘2012 VP113’, better known as VP or Biden after the US......
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Daily Diamond - Long Lost Masterpiece Film Recovered

A silent masterpiece if British cinema, thought to have been lost for the past 80 years, has been found. Love, Life and Laughter, a 1923 film written and directed by legendary silent-film maker George Pearson, had simply made its home in a small cinema in Hattem in the Netherlands, before making......
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Daily Diamond - Airbus and China Make Aviation Deals

China and France’s Airbus have signed an agreement in which states that more than a thousand planes and helicopters will be manufactured.
One particular deal, which involves the French aviation company supplying 43 A320s and 27 larger A330 planes, was suspended because of a carbon emissions......
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Daily Diamond - Hanging Up On Nuisance Cold Calls?

In a triumphant move for anyone who has ever received a nuisance telephone call from a company trying to sell them something they don’t want or need, or when the ‘person’ on the other end of the line says nothing at all or even just hangs up, the government is consulting on heavier fines......
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Daily Diamond - Living Materials: Furniture of the Future?

“Imagine having a chair where you can sit on it for a long time and it remodels to support areas of stress.” This is the dream of Professor Timothy Lu, a synthetic biologist from MIT in the US, who has created some living biofilms that could lead to living materials – like a chair that......
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Daily Diamond - Footballer Saves Opponent's Life During Match

Usually when you hear about the hero of a football match the first thing to spring to mind is that the player scored the winning goal, maybe a hat-trick, or made a gravity-defying save. But in the case of Jaba Kankava, “hero” is being used in its literal form.
Kankava is a midfielder for......
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Daily Diamond - At Last! Freedom For Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

A man who has been on Death Row in Japan for the last 48 years for a crime he may not even have committed finally has his freedom.
Iwao Hakamada holds the Guinness World Record for the person to have served on Death Row for the longest, ever in history, and has now been released after DNA tests......
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Daily Diamond - First Ever Entire 3D-Printed Skull Transplant

Every day there seems to be the announcement of yet another use for 3D printing – and today’s just so happens to be potentially life-saving: skull transplantation.
Although it sounds pretty grotesque for someone to have their skull transplanted, it isn’t something to be done in vain!......
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Daily Diamond - Google Glass to Get a Makeover

Sci-fi glasses have been appearing in our movies and TV shows for decades – John Carpenter’s 1988 They Live where you can tell if people are actually aliens by looking through some special sunglasses, Geordi La Forge’s VISOR from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Ethan Hunt’s......
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Daily Diamond - Atos Quits "Fit-to-Work" Contract Early

Atos Healthcare works on behalf of the government, and its job is to determine whether or not a disability claimant is actually fit to work, or will be in the future. Although there is no direct evidence, the company is thought to be responsible for forcing some of these claimants into work......
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Daily Diamond - Countdown to Tour de France in UK

In a little over three months, the Tour de France will be returning to the UK. Keen spectators of the event who are not inclined for travel, will be able to support their local cycling heroes from the picket line and not just from in front of their television set, for the first time in seven......
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