Daily Diamond - California Passes "Yes Means Yes" Bill

We have all heard of the phrase “no means no” in reference to sexual consent, but what does it really stand for? On a basic level, if someone says “no” or makes it clear that they do not want to participate in a physical encounter, they haven’t given their consent. But if the other......
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Daily Diamond - Breath Test for TB Developed!

The search for a quick and simple tuberculosis test has taken a tremendous step forward as scientists in the US develop the world’s first breath test for the disease.
Tuberculosis, or TB as it is otherwise known, affects around 8.6 million people in the world each year, and killing 1.3......
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Daily Diamond - Creative Industries to Get Skills Boost

The creative sector is worth around £71 billion per year in the UK, but companies have said that they find it hard to recruit employees who are proficient and up to speed with the latest technologies.
To tackle this issue, the Minister for Culture and Digital Economy Ed Vaizey has announced......
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Daily Diamond - Peacock Tails: Do They Really Affect the Bird's Flight?

Peacock tail feathers are beautiful and iconic, but scientists have long believed that the birds pay a steep price for impressing peahens with their elaborate plumage. Peacocks are not the greatest of flyers, especially when taking off. Their tails are thought to be both too bulky and heavy for......
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Daily Diamond - Robot Created with an Artificial Tongue!

A robot with an artificial tongue has been developed that could alter the art of wine tasting as we know it.
The team from Aarhus University’s Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO) in Denmark has used research from the American Chemical Society (ASC), originally published in ACS Nano in......
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Daily Diamond - "Precycling": Shopping Without the Packaging

A recently opened store in Berlin, Germany, is adding to a growing trend of “precycling” shopping, making packaging a thing of the past!
Original Unverpackt (“Originally Unpackaged”) was founded by Milena Glimbovski and Sara Wolf, and opened its doors to the public on 13......
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Daily Diamond - Could Hospital Gowns Be On the Way Out?

How many of us have been to hospital for the smallest thing and had to wear that shapeless hospital gown – wearing nothing underneath – that doesn’t quite meet at the back?
In the past, little thought has gone to how these gowns make the patient feel, in regards to their dignity......
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Daily Diamond - Struggling Bartender Tipped $1,000

We never tire of sharing stories of immense and spontaneous generosity of some people, and here is another, coming out of Wake Forest, North Carolina in the US.
Chrisi Kemp has been waiting tables for the best part of 16 years and is currently a bartender for the One Whirled Café. She recently......
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Daily Diamond - Great Scots!

In honour of Scotland voting to stay with the UK, we have compiled a list of ten of the greatest Scots of all time, some of whom have dramatically impacted the way we live today!

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955)
A biologist who specialised in plants and drugs, he witnessed many......
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Daily Diamond - Microsoft Buys 'Minecraft' Creator Mojang

Mojang is the ingenious company behind the hugely popular open-world video game Minecraft, and it has just been bought by tech giant Microsoft for a staggering $2.5 billion (£1.5 billion).
The game, described as virtual Lego with extras, allows players to build an entire world using retro......
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Daily Diamond - Harnessing Chewing Power

Mechanical engineers in Canada have developed a chin strap that can harness the energy from chewing and convert it into electricity that could one day power hearing aids, earpieces and other small devices.
Study co-authors Dr Jeremie Voix and Dr Aidin Delnavaz from Montreal’s École de......
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Daily Diamond - Man Reunited with Stolen Car 46 Years Later

Back in 1967, Ivan Schneider was a young lawyer living in New York. After winning a big case, he bought himself a $5,000 present in the form of a brand new Jaguar XKE convertible.
But in the March of 1968, Ivan’s beautiful car went missing from outside his apartment, and despite reporting the......
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Daily Diamond - Goodbye to the Smear Test?

Could we be saying “goodbye” to the cervical smear test? The uncomfortable necessity that women have to go through every three years could become a thing of the past with self-testing urine kits, according to researchers in England and Spain.
Cervical screening is available to women in Wales......
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Daily Diamond - Sharks and Manta Rays Get Extra Protection

Finally, some good news for sharks and manta rays! On 14 September, new international laws went into effect to provide extra protection for five species of shark and all species of manta ray.
Sharks and manta rays are hunted for a variety of reasons – food, medicine, trophies – and......
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Daily Diamond - New £1 Coin: "Tails" Competition Now Open!

Back in March, we told you about the new pound coin to be introduced by the Royal Mint in 2017, which will include some of the same counterfeit-proof tech found in Britain’s banknotes.
When George Osborne made the announcement in this year’s Budget, he explained that one pound coin in every......
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Daily Diamond - Where is the Happiest Place on Earth?

Where do you think is the happiest place on Earth? Maybe you think UK folks are the cheeriest, or that the US is the most merry. Well, what if we told you that neither of these places even made it into the top ten?
The Gallup-Healthways Global Well-Being Index compiled data from 135 countries......
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Daily Diamond - First Ever 3D-Printed Vertebra Saves Boy with Cancer

Minghao, a 12-year-old boy from China, was playing football with his friends when he went to head the ball and injured his neck.
But when Minghao went to the doctors, they found that it wasn’t a simple sprain they were dealing with, but a rare form of bone cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma that......
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Daily Diamond - M&S Launches Online Business Course

Retailer Marks and Spencer is entering into the realm of online education, joining up with the University of Leeds to launch a free course on business innovation.
The Mooc (massive open online course) will look at some of the innovative business ideas that have been relevant to M&S over the......
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Daily Diamond - Patrick Stewart Surprises Make-a-Wish Trekkie at DragonCon

There is no denying it: Sir Patrick Stewart is a legend. In fact, he is one of the greatest and well-loved legends of our time. And he appears to age at a much slower rate than the rest of us – he looks just as he did when he first graced our screens as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star......
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Daily Diamond - Learning in Our Sleep...

We know our brains get up to something when we’re sleeping – after all, we have dreams, we react when someone says our name or we hear our alarm go off – but just how capable is it of learning when we’re getting some shut-eye?
Researchers from Cambridge and Paris decided to check......
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Daily Diamond - The World's First Player-Powered Football Pitch

Have you ever watched a game of football and thought about all of the potential energy that was being wasted? Maybe not, but a start-up company from London has!
Pavegen has created tiles that convert the kinetic energy of a footstep into electrical power, with some already in use in Heathrow......
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Daily Diamond - Tenants to get "Revenge Eviction" Protection

Are you one of the nine million people in the UK that privately rent your home? If so, you could be getting some extra protection from being evicted after making completely justifiable complaints.
Sadly, this occurrence is more common than you might think. Some rogue landlords kick tenants from......
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Daily Diamond - Intel Reveals World's Smallest Commercial Processor

Showcasing their latest wares at the recent IFA Tech Conference in Berlin, computing giants Intel have revealed the first in their Broadwell series of next-generation processors – with the world’s smallest transistors to ever have been used in a commercial product.
The company managed to......
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Daily Diamond - The Travelling Teacher

A geography teacher and deputy head at North Cestrian Grammar School in Cheshire is showing everyone how it is done by turning his spare time into material for his lessons.
Matthew Bell has a passion for travelling that he has put to good use in the classroom and is also inspiring his students......
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Daily Diamond - Recovery of the Ozone Layer!

The ozone layer, the Earth’s protective shield that absorbs most of the Sun’s cancer-causing UV radiation, has been diminishing for decades. We can all remember the horror stories about how it will only be so long before it dissipates completely.
But a new report from the WMO and UNEP......
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Daily Diamond - The Great Sock-Eater and Other Tales

In honour of this week’s #FurryFriday, we bring you the tale of the Great Sock-Eater. It sounds like something to come out of the magical mind of Roald Dahl, but is actually incredibly real.
Owners of a three-year-old Great Dane – all of whom wish to remain anonymous – brought......
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Daily Diamond - James Corden to Be New Face of The Late Late Show

It has been confirmed that the American late-night television talk show The Late Late Show will be getting a new host at the beginning of next year in the form of English funnyman James Corden.
The Late Late Show was launched in 1995 with then-host Tom Snyder, but since 2005 has been hosted by......
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Daily Diamond - New York Fashion Week: 'Role Models, Not Runway Models'

Once again, Carrie Hammer has been pushing the boundaries of New York Fashion Week, showing that beauty comes in all forms.
When a person is lacking in self-confidence, there is nothing more confidence-boosting than being invited to walk down a New York Fashion Week runway, reminding that person......
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Daily Diamond - Smartphone Could Diagnose and Monitor Parkinson's Disease

Despite being one of the most common neurodegenerative conditions – affecting almost 130,000 people in the UK alone – Parkinson’s disease symptoms are difficult to measure objectively, outside the doctor’s clinic.
But now smartphone technology has been developed at Aston......
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Daily Diamond - Same-Sex Couple Marries After 70 Years Together

We all like a good story of true love now and again, and that certainly is the case of Alice “Nonie” Dubes and her new wife Vivian Boyack. But what is different with these two ladies?
Vivian is 91 and Nonie is 90, and the couple has been together for more than 70 years, saying that it is......
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Daily Diamond - We Can Finally Delete Those Accidentally-Sent Texts!

Have you ever sent a text to the wrong person, or pressed ‘send’ and immediately regretted it? We’ve all been there! Before, we would have had to nervously await the reply, banging our heads against the wall and asking ourselves how we could have been so stupid.
But now there is an app......
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Daily Diamond - New Classes to Teach Kids About Money Management

Over the next couple of months, young people in secondary schools will start learning about financial management as part of the national curriculum, in a bid to teach them how to work towards a financially secure future.
The changes to the curriculum come after a campaign led by Martin Lewis,......
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Daily Diamond - The Clangers are Back (With a Wonderful New Narrator)!

Raise your hand if you fondly remember watching The Clangers as a child… Originally airing in the late 60s, the little knitted and puppet-like critters captured the childish hearts of so many generations, and we can joyously report that they will be gracing our screens once more!
The Clangers......
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Daily Diamond - Which Diet is the Best? Whichever One is Easiest!

It’s Monday and lots of people will be thinking that this is the day to start the new diet. In fact, some people seem to spend all of their time dieting, trying this one (“I’m going to start that Atkins diet on Monday”) or that one (“You know what really worked for me? Weight Watchers,......
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Daily Diamond - When Life Gives You Lemons: From Cancelled Wedding to Fundraiser

You’re going to get married and everything is all bought and paid for. But at the last minute, something happens and the wedding is off. What do you do?
Had everything gone to plan, then Phil LaBoon, a 32-year-old internet marketing CEO from Pennsylvania in the US, would be a married man now.......
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Daily Diamond - Scientists Change Memory Emotions from Bad to Good

We all have some things we associate with bad memories – a scent, a place, a song – but what if we could turn the negativity we feel for those things around, so that positivity is ignited instead?
Scientists from the Riken-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics (CNCG) in......
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Daily Diamond - Uni Rejection Letters Don't Come Much Better Than This...

Go on, admit it! You’ve secretly hoped a letter would arrive in the post (or by owl) with that tell-tale inky scrawl across the front, finally informing you of your acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We’ve all been there, don’t worry.
But it seems that one......
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Daily Diamond - The Star Trek Tricorder Becomes Real in Sci-Fi Inspired Competition

If you’ve seen Star Trek, then you may remember an awesome handheld device called a tricorder, the medical version of which could wirelessly collect bodily information of a patient and detect a range of diseases.
Obviously, it would be a medical dream come true if such technology became fact,......
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Daily Diamond - Hospital Food in England to Get Revamp

Apart from the obvious medical worries, one of things that people don’t like about an overnight stay at hospital is the prospect of having to eat hospital food.
But as of later this year, not only will hospitals in England be enforced to raise the standards of the food they serve to their......
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Daily Diamond - Fashion Inspired by Technology

Advances in technology have seen rising numbers of collaborations between tech companies and fashion designers, and some just in time for London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015 (SS15), which will be held on September 12.
More and more designers are extending their reach with accessories that are......
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Daily Diamond - The Secrets Beneath Stonehenge

Believed to have been built at some point between 3000BC and 2000BC (making it more than 4,000 years old!), Stonehenge is one of the most famous sites in the world. And yet, such mystery surrounds not only how it got there, but also why it was built there.
And now that mystery has deepened even......
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Daily Diamond - Human-Like Skin that Feels - For Planes?!

What if we told you that a defence contractor in the UK has developed technology that could give aeroplanes human-like skin that could ‘feel’?
Sadly (or not), this doesn’t mean great flesh-coloured aircraft scattering across our skies, but a plane covered with thousands upon thousands of......
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Daily Diamond - Football Legend at Centre of Twitter Craze

If you need a chuckle this Monday afternoon, then we might have just the thing for you – Steve Bruce at Weddings!
Mr Bruce has been involved in football for the last 37 years, ranging from his youth career at Gillingham to currently managing Hull City.
But what does he like to do in his......
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Daily Diamond - Amazon Partners Up with Shanghai FTZ

Amazon seems to have had its fingers in all the pies over the last couple of months, boosting revenue with its click-and-collect Doddle plans, 3D Printed Products Store, and the latest shock takeover of video-streaming site Twitch. The company is also focusing its efforts on improving its......
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