Daily Diamond - Gecko-Gloves for Climbing Like Spiderman

Most of us would have watched Spiderman scaling the side of a building using just his hands and wondered what it would be like if it were really possible to be able to do such a thing. Well, now it is possible, thanks to scientists from Stanford University in the US.
The team, led by mechanical......
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Daily Diamond - Reindeer Police to the Rescue in Russia

In the far north of Russia lies the Arctic Tundra, a stark and frozen landscape that is difficult to navigate at the best of times. In northwest Siberia is a region called Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Here, the police struggle to maintain law and order across the difficult terrain –......
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Daily Diamond - Talking Therapies Shown to Reduce Suicide Risk

When it comes to illnesses like depression, many people dismiss the idea of talking therapies as something that simply doesn’t work. But according to a new study coming out of the US, talk-therapy sessions can actually reduce the risk of suicide in people who have previously attempted to take......
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Daily Diamond - Wikipedia Page-Views Can Predict Disease Outbreaks

Trying to stay ahead of outbreak trends is not an easy task. It usually involves laboratory tests, collecting data, calls to doctors’ surgeries and trying to keep track of the number of people who visit health facilities. This process might be accurate, but it is also slow and expensive, and......
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Daily Diamond - Twins Find Out They're Identical for Liver Transplant

The first ever UK live donor liver transplant involving identical twins took place earlier this year – but the twins didn’t know they were identical until one of them needed surgery.
Annemarie Atha and Geraldine Rowing, both 48 and from Leeds, were always told by their mother that they......
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Daily Diamond - Life-Size Katniss Sponge is Icing on the Cake...

Last year, Lara Clarke from the West Midlands made headlines around the world with her entry in the Cake International bakers’ competition in Birmingham. Swaying rather far from traditional cakes, Lara’s “almost life-sized” cake of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of......
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Daily Diamond - Alibaba Breaks Records with Singles' Day

Within only the first 17 hours of China’s “Singles’ Day” shopping event, online-retail giant Alibaba had already smashed sales records, ultimately improving on last year’s sales figures by a whopping 62%.
Singles’ Day is an annual online shopping event based in China, held on......
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Daily Diamond - SWAT Superheroes "Save" Children's Hospital

Children who are ill enough to have to spend time in hospital miss out on a lot of fun, especially if they have to stay in for the holidays.
For residing patients at Ohio’s Promedica Toledo Children’s Hospital in the US, it is the same story. Being too ill to go out and trick-or-treat, the......
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Daily Diamond - Clearest Ever Photo of Planet Formation!

The ALMA telescopes have struck again – this time giving us the clearest ever picture of new planets forming around a star. And what make this image even more exciting is that the star is so young that it changes what we know about the formation of solar systems!
As you can see from the......
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Daily Diamond - Intel Funds Schoolboy Inventor's Braille Printer

The inventor of a low-cost Braille printer has secured funding from tech giant Intel – and he is only 13 years old.
Shubham Banerjee became interested in helping blind people when he came across a fundraising leaflet and started to wonder what being blind is really like. After Googling......
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Daily Diamond - 8-Year-Old Raises Money to Cure Best Friend's Illness

After reading this, you are going to hope you have a friend like Dylan Siegel – and strive to be a friend like him.
At eight years old, Dylan is an author with almost $1 million (£630,000) to his name. Or he would be if every single penny of book sales didn’t go on research for his best......
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Daily Diamond - "Family Test" for All Future Laws and Policies

For the first time, some questions have been introduced to as a sort of “family test” when coming up with new government laws and policies.
The plans were announced by Prime Minister David Cameron in August, and on Friday, ministers published the criteria guidance that should be applied to......
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Daily Diamond - Speed-Dating Plan to Boost Neglected Language

Do you speak Belarusian and wish you could find your Belarusian soul mate? Then you might just be in luck! An independent public culture initiative called Art-Siadziba (or Art Manor) may have just the thing for you – Belarusian Speed Dating!
Belarus is an Eastern European country that used......
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Daily Diamond - Rare Fanged Deer Emerges for First Time in 60 Years

There are seven different species of musk deer that grace the forests and mountainous areas of Asia, most notably the Himalayas. Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a musk deer is its fang-like teeth.
Only the males of the species grow the fangs, which are actually tusks because they are......
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Daily Diamond - Special Coating to Make Batteries Child-Safe

Engineers from Boston in the US have managed to find a way of making batteries safe if they are accidentally swallowed – potentially saving the lives of thousands of children around the world.
The batteries in question are those small, round button-like ones that you might find in a watch,......
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Daily Diamond - "Beautiful Buddhist Monks" Fashion Show!

Shingon Buddhists in Japan have taken a rather unconventional approach – for them, anyway – to celebrate their 1,200th anniversary next year…
But first, what is a Buddhist? Well, some describe it as a religion, some, a philosophy, others, simply a better way of life.
Whichever way......
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Daily Diamond - Hotel Room Key... There's an App for That!

Regular visitors to hotels might have wondered what it would like to just skip the hassle of checking in. Having to wait in line at reception just to let them know you made it there, and be handed a plastic card that will probably get lost or broken. And then have to juggle your luggage in one......
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Daily Diamond - Elected Mayor for Greater Manchester

For the first time, the leaders of Greater Manchester in England have agreed to have an elected mayor. The first election is expected to take place in 2017 and the successful candidate’s role will be to preside over regional policies, such as transport and housing.
Greater Manchester is made......
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Daily Diamond - UK Rubbish Heating Denmark's Homes

Regarding rubbish in the UK, there is no doubting the landfill problems we often hear about. But did you know that last year alone we exported around 200,000 tonnes of the stuff – to Denmark?
And over the last year or so, that figure has doubled. But what are they doing with it? Well, they......
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Daily Diamond - PenguinBot Infiltrates Penguin Colony...

One of the most crucial ways of understanding the way certain animals behave is to study them in their natural environment. But even the most passive act of observation can change the way an animal behaves.
Take penguins, for example. In the past, scientists attached transponders to the wings of......
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Daily Diamond - "Orphan Works" to Find New Homes

There are an estimated 91 million “orphan works”, according to the UK government. These are artworks, photographs, diaries and letters and other historically important documents, of which the copyright owners cannot be located. And now, under a new licensing scheme in the UK, some of these......
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Daily Diamond - A Cancer Sensor from Google?

Google is working on new technology that could potentially diagnose health problems like cancer or heart attacks at a much earlier stage than is currently possible.
As with treatment of many diseases, early diagnosis is key. Unfortunately, many can only be detected when they have already passed......
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