Daily Diamond - "Guardians" Proposed for Missing People

It is hard enough when someone you love goes missing without having to worry about what is happening to the life you hope they will return to.
Sadly, when a person disappears it is too often the case that their bills go left unpaid and their mortgage payments slide. This is because the person......
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Daily Diamond - A Student's Life-Saving Heart Research

A student from Hampshire has made a scientific breakthrough that could save the lives of people – specifically athletes – with an undiagnosed heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
HCM is an inherited condition in which the heart’s muscle wall becomes thickened......
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Daily Diamond - Adorable White Lion Cubs Born

Four adorable lion cubs have been born at Circus Krone in Germany. But what makes these lion cubs newsworthy (apart from being ridiculously cute)? They are very rare white lion cubs.
The litter is made up of three males and a female, and all are healthy and eating well, but have yet to have been......
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Daily Diamond - Wireless Tech for Epilepsy Sufferers

Epilepsy affects one out of every 100 people, with more than 500,000 people in the UK and around 50 million in the world suffering from the condition. But epilepsy is notoriously difficult to diagnose and a sufferer needs to have had more than one seizure for it to be considered because many......
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Daily Diamond - River Turtles Found to Communicate Vocally

Over the last year, we have told you about the polite conversation of marmoset monkeys and the translated gestures of chimpanzees. And while animals are evidently capable of communicating with each other in their own way, few appear to do so vocally.
Now, scientists from the WCS (Wildlife......
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Daily Diamond - Police Stop-and-Search Changes

A new government code of conduct has been introduced which will see more than half of all police forces in England and Wales changing the way they handle stop-and-searches on members of the public, spreading to all 43 forces by November this year.
The changes were proposed earlier this year by......
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Daily Diamond - University Places Rise for A-Level Students on Results Day

A couple of weeks ago, students from across the UK received their long-awaited A-level results, nervously opening an envelope that could hold their future inside. For the first time in thirty years, the overall pass rate of A-levels has fallen slightly, as well as the number of A and A* grades.......
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Daily Diamond - Twice-a-Day Pill Could Cure Alopecia Hair Loss

Around one or two out of a thousand people in the UK suffered from alopecia areata, a kind of hair loss that results in patches of baldness and is very difficult to treat, according to the NHS.
Usually a person develops the disease when they are between the ages of 15 and 29, with 60% of these......
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Daily Diamond - Batteries Powered By Sweat...?

Scientists from the University of California have developed a biobattery, similar to a temporary-tattoo, that produces power from sweat. Detailed in the journal Angewandte Chemie and presented at the National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the tiny device is the......
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Daily Diamond - The Ice Bucket Challenge

The Ice Bucket Challenge which has been sweeping the web – you may have seen videos of some of your friends or even your favourite celebrities stepping up to the plate and pouring a bucket filled with ice or ice water over their heads.
But what exactly is it all about? Within 24 hours of......
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Daily Diamond - First Female "Mathematician's Nobel Prize" Winner

Professor Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first person from Stanford University in the US to have won the Fields Medal since 1966. But more than that she has made history by becoming the first female recipient of the coveted award.
Otherwise known as the International Medal for Outstanding......
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Daily Diamond - Duke the Dog Elected as Town Mayor

The title of this article is in no way misleading – a small town called Cormorant in Minnesota, in the US, has indeed elected a dog as its mayor, and in a landslide vote no less.
Well, landslide by this town’s standards anyway, with seven-year-old Duke receiving at least nine votes in......
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Daily Diamond - The Purple Heart Mission

Vermont National Guard Captain Zachariah Fike has made it his mission to return Purple Heart medals to their rightful owners.
The Purple Heart is a medal awarded to military in the US who have been wounded or killed while serving in the army. Because of this, a lot of Purple Hearts belong to......
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Daily Diamond - Shelley Kerr Makes History as First Woman in Scottish Men's Football

Former Arsenal Ladies manager Shelley Kerr is making history as she becomes the first female manager in Scottish senior football.
After 16 months at Arsenal Ladies, during which time she led them to win the FA Cup (twice!) and the Continental Cup, she is now going to take charge of Stirling......
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Daily Diamond - Self-Building Origami Robots...

Origami robots! Yes, that is what you think it says: Origami robots! Now, while these creations may not actually be made from colourful pieces of paper, they are certainly inspired by the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding.
The team from Harvard and MIT in the US wanted to demonstrate the......
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Daily Diamond - Child's Play: Great for Boosting Development!

A new report commissioned by the Children’s Play Policy Forum and published to coincide with 6 August’s national day of play, Playday, has reviewed a wide range of research into the importance of child’s play. It has confirmed that playing helps boost a child’s language development,......
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Daily Diamond - The Circus Group Vs The Bank

At the end of July, a circus group from Bristol was denied a business account because the bank claimed that some of the troupe’s acts posed a “moral problem” that the bank couldn’t be associated with. But in true Daily Diamond style, there is a silver lining to this story!
Joshua Morris......
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Daily Diamond - Words from the Late, Great Robin Williams

We at Daily Diamond wanted to pay our respects to the legend that is Robin Williams, who recently passed away.
While the circumstances of his death have saddened the world, here are ten of the wonderful actor’s greatest quotes and words of wisdom to try and do what he did best: put a smile on......
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Daily Diamond - Eggshells: Natural Sunblock for Baby Birds

Examining around 75 species of birds’ eggs from the UK in the Natural History Museum collection, scientists have found that eggshells act as a form of UV protection for the embryos developing inside and have published their research in Functional Ecology.
Researchers found variations in......
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Daily Diamond - After 55 Years of Waiting, Civil Rights Activist Finally Graduates

More than half a century ago, Alva Earley was fighting the fight for equality, and because he decided to take a stand against segregation, he was denied his high-school graduation and diploma. But now, with a little help from his friends, he has finally been given what he should have gotten all......
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Daily Diamond - 11-Year-Old Invents the IV Pediatric Backpack 4 Kids with Cancer

Kylie Simonds from Connecticut in the US is only eleven years old and has already overcome cancer and become an inventor to help other children just like her.
Around three years ago, Kylie had a kind of cancer of the connective tissue called rhabdomyosarcoma. She spent 46 weeks having......
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Daily Diamond - Music Lessons Boost Children's Learning

We already know that learning music as a child can help prevent cognitive decline as a person gets older, but now new research from Northwestern University working the Harmony Project in the US has found that children from disadvantaged areas are able to boost their reading and language skills......
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Daily Diamond - Gold Rush: New Species of Bat Discovered!

Scientists think they have discovered a new species of bat in Bolivia – and it’s gold!
The golden bat is of the genus Myotis (mouse-eared bat) and has short woolly fur in a colour that is unique among mouse-eared bats in the western hemisphere. The bat’s full name is Myotis......
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Daily Diamond - Shaun the Sheep to Take to the Streets

In 2011, gorillas were scattered around Bristol as part of a huge art event called Wow! Gorillas to celebrate Bristol Zoo’s 175th birthday. Not only could residents and tourists alike wander around the city trying to spot the uniquely decorated sculptures, but after their 10-week showcase they......
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Daily Diamond - An Aspirin a Day Could Keep the Cancer Away?

A report published in the Annals of Oncology by the Queen Mary University of London has reviewed all available studies about aspirin to determine what the harms and benefits are of taking the drug on a regular basis. It was found that aspirin, one of the most cheap and common drugs on the......
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Daily Diamond - Zambia To Get Free Internet Services Through Facebook App

Even though only a third of the people in the world are connected to the internet, some of the remaining people might not live in as remote places as you might expect. In fact, some 85% of the world is within coverage distance.
So, in a bid to extend Internet usage to underdeveloped countries,......
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Daily Diamond - Canada's New ATMs: Automated *Thanking* Machines

What has your bank done to thank you for your custom lately? If you are lucky enough to be with the TD Canada Trust then even just being asked this question will bring a smile to your face!
The company wanted to go a little further than the usual small free gift, or the “here is a hot drink......
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Daily Diamond - The Happiness Equation

In March, we told you about a study that showed that people who are happier tend to work harder. Scientists have now developed a mathematical equation that can predict momentary happiness, published in PNAS.
In this latest study, 26 participants played a money game in which they were asked to......
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Daily Diamond - Schoolboys Find 4,000-Year-Old Gold

Four boys from Cumbria, North West England, have found a rare head ornament made of gold during an archaeological dig in Northumberland.
Aiden Bell and Sebastian Alderson, both 10, Luca Alderson, eight, and seven-year-old Joseph Bell had learnt about archaeology at Alston Primary School, as part......
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Daily Diamond - Small Doses of Video Gaming are Good for Kids

We often worry about the impact playing computer games has on the development of children, but now new research suggests that gaming might not be as bad for them as we thought. In fact, not only was it found that young people who play video games for between one and three hours a day experience......
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Daily Diamond - Teenage Musician Loaned £1 Million Violin

An 18-year-old violinist has been loaned a rare instrument worth £1 million by a professional musician who is not only awed by the boy’s musical ability but has also been touched by the similarities in both of their lives and music careers.

John Ludlow’s Stradivarius violin dates back to......
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Daily Diamond - From Facial Expressions to First Impressions

It is thought that it only takes seconds for someone to form their first impression of you, with that impression able to affect future behaviour around you, and it can be difficult to change that opinion. And while we know not to judge someone purely on how they look – “don’t judge a......
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Daily Diamond - Autonomous Automobiles Could Be Hitting Our Roads Next Year!

According to Business Secretary Vince Cable, cars could be driving their own way around the UK’s streets from as early as January next year.
Mr Cable said that computer-controlled cars would be trialled in three cities around the UK, with government funding of £10 million being made available......
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Daily Diamond - Display Screens Could Help People with Vision Problems

In the UK, around one in three people suffer from shortsightedness, also known as myopia, in which they have difficulty seeing objects that are not near them. (Farsightedness, or hyperopia, is the opposite and affects a person’s ability to see objects that are close to them.) Myopia affects......
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Daily Diamond - Garden Cities Construction to Curb Housing Shortage

In a bid to combat the housing shortage in England, it was confirmed in April that three new “garden cities” were going to be built by 2020.
Garden cities are new towns built specifically to incorporate a large number of new homes with as much open and green space as possible. The idea is......
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Daily Diamond - One-Shot Breast Cancer Therapy Given Go-Ahead on NHS

Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease in the UK, affecting around 48,000 women and one in every 100,000 men. Treatment tends to involve surgery and many trips to the hospital for the patient to have radiotherapy, which can be both inconvenient and draining.
But those trips could......
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