Daily Diamond - Teenager Feeds the Hungry of America

All it takes is one little seedling to feed a whole lot of people, something that one green-thumbed teenager found out and built on to feed the hungry of America.
Katie Stagliano, 16 from South Carolina, was nine when her teacher gave her a cabbage seedling as part of a school project. She......
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Daily Diamond - "Forrest Gump" Runs 42 Back-to-Back Marathons

Have you ever taken part in something sponsored for charity – something you have had to really push yourself for, to raise as much money as possible?
Most of us have thought about it at least, but it’s really heartening to see those people who put their bodies on the line and show us......
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Daily Diamond - Legal Protection for Apprenticeships!

Apprenticeships are a way of coaching people in a trade or profession with on-the-job training, combined with work in the classroom. But where apprenticeships differ from other courses, aside from the training, is they enable the apprentice to build their career as they learn, and gain a licence......
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Daily Diamond - Virtual Reality Helps Stroke Patients Regain Movement

People who have suffered a stroke can experience a range of complications after, such as depression and anxiety. But what of the physical repercussions? Having a stroke can result in weakness or paralysis on one side of the body, called hemiparesis.
Paralysis of any kind can take a lot of work......
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Daily Diamond - 102-Year-Old is Oldest Person to Receive Doctorate

Dr Ingeborg Rapoport from Germany has become the oldest person in the world to have received her doctorate, at the grand old age of 102.
This, in itself, is amazing news, but how this story came to be might be even more incredible.
Ingeborg should have received her PhD almost 80 years ago......
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Daily Diamond - For the Love of Laundry - and Helping Others

If you’ve ever been through hard times – which most of us have, at some point – you might have considered helping people who are in that same situation you managed to survive.
That’s what Melissa Power from Ontario in Canada wanted to do, and she came up with a wonderful way......
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Daily Diamond - All Wishes Come True for Boy Born Without Ears

It’s not very common, but some babies are born with only one ear because of a condition called microtia, or bilateral microtia when it affects both ears. In the UK, microtia affects around 100 children every year.
Nine-year-old Kieran Sorkin from Hertfordshire in England was one of these......
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Daily Diamond - "Female Viagra" Approved by FDA

Most of us will have heard of Viagra, which is often prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction and help men enjoy a happy and healthy “love” life again. “But what of the female equivalent?” ask women’s rights activists.
It’s been something that pharmaceutical......
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Daily Diamond - Life Expectancy Increasing - Men Catching Up!

Back in 1981, the average life expectancy for men in England and Wales was six years behind women. Since then, a variety of factors has improved the average life expectancy of both men and women, with men reaping the most benefits. They’ve caught up and there is only a two-year gap between......
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Daily Diamond - Yahoo Tests Ear-Print Scanners for Smartphones

Many of us use PINs to unlock our phones, and some of the more tech-savvy among us might even use a fingerprint scanner. But what about scanning another part of your body instead, say, your knuckles, your palm, or even your ear? That’s what Yahoo Labs is proposing and currently testing......
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Daily Diamond - How Pets Can Make Your Home Even Happier

Having a pet can be great for all the family, and even help with children’s development. So, if you’re on the fence about buying your child his or her first pet, maybe this article can help!
First things first, keeping pets could help your child to grow into the kind and caring adult......
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Daily Diamond - US Diet Pepsi to Drop Aspartame

If you happen to be one of those people dubious about the safety of the artificial sweetener aspartame, but love Diet Pepsi, then we have some great news for you!
Due to popular demand, PepsiCo is replacing the sweetener it uses in its Diet Pepsi drinks. There is a downside though, which would......
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Daily Diamond - Windows Open to Android and iOS for Apps

As you might expect, there is a lot of hype surrounding the release of Windows 10 and what this version could have to offer. And why wouldn’t there be when Microsoft are billing this version the operating system for software developers.
As a consumer, one of the most annoying factors of......
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Daily Diamond - Picasso and Giacometti Smash Auction Records

Picasso is one of the most famous artists ever to have lived, and a recent auction of one of his paintings has gone on to prove that.
Les Femmes d’Alger (left in the cover photo) is Picasso’s 15-piece interpretation of Eugène Delcrois’s Women in Algiers, titled Versions......
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Daily Diamond - Vibrating Pen to Help Parkinson's Patients Write

When someone develops Parkinson’s disease, it affects their physical movement, slowing their movements, stiffening their muscles, and tremors. Another possible symptom is something called Micrographia.
This condition is characterised by the patient’s handwriting becoming smaller and smaller,......
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Daily Diamond - 43 Dinosaur Eggs Discovered in China

The Cretaceous period was a great time for the dinosaurs. 89 million years ago, the climate was hotter than it is now, and, unsurprisingly, dinosaurs dominated the planet. In what we now know as Asia, huge “duck-billed” dinosaurs were particularly common, as evidenced by a large collection......
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Daily Diamond - Continuous Capture - The Self-Powered Camera

Renewable energy is growing, with us spotting more and more house sporting solar panels on their roofs to supplement their energy supply. But we are still yet to create the elusive perpetual motion, the hypothetical machine that can run indefinitely without using an outside power source.
Of......
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Daily Diamond - Skin Creams Could Hold Key to MS Recovery

A team of scientists from Ohio in the US have found that two common, over-the-counter medications could help treat people with multiple sclerosis (MS) by rebuilding myelin in their bodies. Surprisingly, these drugs come in the form of miconazole, an antifungal cream for athlete’s foot, and......
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Daily Diamond - WWII Lost Silver Recovered From Ocean Floor

Deep Ocean Search, or DOS, is a British company specialising in ultra-deep water recovery, and recently announced the recovery of a treasure trove that has lain on the seafloor since late 1942.
On 6 November, 1942, the SS City of Cairo was travelling from Bombay to the UK, via Cape Town and......
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Daily Diamond - Ancient Coin Suggests Earlier Bristol Channel Trading

A coin has recently been revealed to the public that suggest maritime activity along the Bristol Channel in Britain began a lot earlier than originally thought. The little lump of metal doesn’t look like much, but this isn’t just any old coin. It is 2,300 years old, which makes it......
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Daily Diamond - Google Overhauls Mobile Search Rankings

We have come to a time when more people are using the internet on their mobile devices than on a computer. So wouldn’t it make more send to make mobile-friendly websites more prominent in search results?
That was Google’s thinking, which they put into practice from 21 April. Some......
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Daily Diamond - Roman's Birthday Surprise

It’s a simple fact of life that some people find it easier to make friends than others. But for those who don’t have many – or any – friends, especially at school, it can all be a devastating experience, for both the children and the parents.
Take Roman Povey, for......
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Daily Diamond - First New Pylons in 90 Years

Pylons are those great steel structures dotted around the country, supporting the overhead cables that carry high voltages of electricity. They make up the UK’s electricity transmission network and started when the first ever pylon was built new Edinburgh in 1928.
Since then, around 88,000......
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Daily Diamond - Violence Against Children at Lowest in Annual Survey

That’s right folks – it’s that time again when we learn the results of Cardiff University’s annual violence report for England and Wales.
For the seventh consecutive year, the figures have improved from the year before. Violence-related injuries are now at their lowest......
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Daily Diamond - Being Overweight Linked to Lower Dementia Risk

For those of us stuck in the seemingly endless battle of trying to lose weight, there might be some good news that doesn’t involve dieting! Research from Spain and the UK suggests that overweight people have a smaller chance of developing dementia when they get older than those who are......
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Daily Diamond - Inbreeding Helps Gorillas Survive

Nearly everything we head about inbreeding leads us to believe that it is harmful to genetics. And we’d be right. It’s when offspring are produced from the mating of individuals that are closely related, and can lead to genetic weaknesses and defects.
But when a population shrinks to......
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Daily Diamond - Model-Teacher Crowdfunds Students' Books

Like something from fiction, Samuel has a secret identity. By day, he is Mr Pearce, teaching English to 13- and 14-year-olds. But at night and weekends, he becomes Sam Worthen, fashion model, strutting his stuff on the runways of the world.
To make things simpler here, we’re just going to......
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Daily Diamond - Park Restoration Unearths 175-Year-Old Time Capsule

In October, we told you about the rediscovery of a bronze box in New York that turned out to be one of the oldest examples of a time capsule known to us.
It was something of a tradition in Victorian times to lay time capsules inside the foundation stone of important buildings. One such Victorian......
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Daily Diamond - Bendy Battery, Speedy Charge!

A team of US scientists have built a prototype of what could become the first viable aluminium battery to hit the commercial market. But that’s not all – this battery is cheap, safe, flexible, and only takes a minute to charge!
Unlike conventional batteries that sit in a hard casing,......
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Daily Diamond - Spring is Here: Volunteers Help Horseshoe Crabs

The horseshoe crab is a marvel by today’s standards. The creatures have been around hundreds of millions of years, making them living fossils and older than the dinosaurs.
There are many features of the horseshoe crab that makes it extraordinary – their eyes, their blood, their......
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Daily Diamond - Perfume that Smells Better the More You Sweat!

There are lucky people out there who can spritz themselves with perfume first this in the morning, and the glorious scent is still hanging around at the end of the day. But for some people, the first hint of perspiration and the perfume is gone.
For those people, they could finally be a......
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Daily Diamond - Vinyl Records Make Comeback with First UK Chart

Many of us have grown up listening to vinyl, perhaps your own records, or that of your parents or older siblings. Whatever the case may be, listening to vinyl has played an important role for a lot of people, providing the soundtracks to their lives.
There is just something about vinyl. Just......
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Daily Diamond - Hospital Launches App to Help Children Sleep

If you’re a parent, carer, or you’ve looked after children overnight, then you may have witnessed what can only be called a glitch in the child’s sleeping pattern.
While most children will sleep soundly, there can be phases where the child just doesn’t want to go to bed,......
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Daily Diamond - Anon Donor Pays for Girl's Life-Changing Operation

We all want our children to grow up to be happy and healthy, and we will do anything we can to make sure that happens. But there are some things beyond our control.
Take Kaitlin Nguyen from California, for example. She is only three years old, but she was born with a lymphatic malformation in......
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Daily Diamond - "Significant" Oil Find Near Gatwick Airport

According to UK Oil & Gas Investments (UKOG), there could be around 100 billion barrels worth of oil lying underneath the south of England, and it could be removed without having to resort to fracking!
In October, we told you about a new oil field that had been discovered in the North Sea, a......
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Daily Diamond - Medieval Eye Infection Remedy Kills MRSA

Who would have thought that something as simple as an eye remedy could be the key to killing superbugs resistant to antibiotics, like MRSA?
But that’s what scientists have found after recreating a treatment for eye infections found in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript.
The manuscript in question......
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Daily Diamond - UK's First National Videogame Arcade

Have you ever thought, “If only there were a place dedicated to the art and history of video games in the UK?”… Well, now there is!
The National Videogame Arcade (NVA), the UK’s first national centre dedicated to video games, opened its doors to the public.
The £2.5......
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Daily Diamond - The Healing Power of Blood

Blood, the extraordinary fluid that runs through our veins. It nourishes us and sustains us. If our skin is broken, blood clots and protects the wound. It regenerates our bodies. It is our lifeforce.
Despite all of this and decades of research, we still know so little about blood, and......
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Daily Diamond - Nations Make Climate Pledges to the UN

The US is the latest nation to make a pledge for tackling climate change, making a formal offer to the United Nations.
Altogether there are to be 196 of what is being called Intended Nationally Distributed Contributions. The wealthiest nations were given the informal deadline of March 31 to make......
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Daily Diamond - Tsunami Survivors Reunited with Their Lost Memories

Imagine for a moment that you have a single photo album with all of your most precious memories frozen in time in that one book. Now think about losing that album, with no possible hope of ever getting it back.
While this might sound quite bleak, this is what it would have been like for some of......
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Daily Diamond - Graphene Light Bulb to Hit Shelves

The first consumer product made from graphene is set to go on sale within the next couple of months – light bulbs!
Graphene is a super-strong carbon material, a micro-thin layer of which is said to be stronger than steel.
The material was discovered by Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin......
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Daily Diamond - All UK Babies to Get MenB Vaccine!

Almost exactly a year ago, we told you how a meningitis B vaccine was on its way for babies in the UK. And now, we can happily announce that a deal has been struck and all infants under the age of two months will have access to the vaccine from later this year.
There has been something of a......
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Daily Diamond - River-Powered Homes?

We’re always happy to learn about potential new renewable energy sources! And that’s just what a million homes across England could be benefiting from in the near future, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
Technology known as water source heat pumps......
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Daily Diamond - New Cars Adjust Their Speed According to Road Signs!

If there is one thing that irritates drivers all over the world, it’s getting a speeding ticket – especially when they don’t realise they went over the speed limit.
But Ford has now produced a car that could put an end to this accidental speeding violations, helping drivers to......
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Daily Diamond - Native Flora Not Threatened by Introduced Species

When it comes to plant life in Britain, it is generally thought that species introduced from other countries – “non-native species” – pose a risk to the plants that originate here.
But according to University of York study that has recently been published in PNAS, these......
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Daily Diamond - Iron Man Gives Boy Own Bionic Arm

Robert Downey Jr’s latest reprise in his role of Tony Stark, aka Iron Man has his the web, and this one is rather moving! The video is part of The Collective Project, Microsoft’s showcase of work from students in the US who are making positive changes for their......
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Daily Diamond - "Learning Passports" for Teachers in Wales

Last May, the Welsh government announced that it would be launching what they call a “New Deal for Teachers”.
Estyn is Wales’ schools watchdog, releasing a report every year on the quality of teaching in schools across the country. In the latest annual report, it was found that......
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Daily Diamond - Real-Life Superhero: The Birmingham Spider-Man

If you’re sceptical about the existence of superheroes (besides the emergency services, that is), then this one might change your mind!
Spider-Man has set up residence in Birmingham in the UK and in true superhero fashion he is making sure the homeless people of the city aren’t going......
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Daily Diamond - Frankie the Cancer-Sniffing Dog

Dogs have been called “man’s best friend” for the longest time, and they have even been know to save human lives. And it looks like they could save even more lives in the future, according to a team of researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in......
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Daily Diamond - Wild Lynx to be Reintroduced to UK?

There haven’t been any lynx in the British countryside for more than 1,300 years, but that be about to change thanks to conservation charity The Lynx Trust.
The Eurasian lynx – the species hoped to be introduced – can grow up to 129cm (51in) long and 70cm (28in) tall. The......
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Daily Diamond - Scientists Create TB-Resistant Cows in China

With badger-cull conflict having swept the UK for the past couple of years, doesn’t it make you wonder how much easier everything would have been if Bovine TB weren’t something to worry about?
Well, thanks to scientists from the Ministry of Agriculture in Northwest A&F University......
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Daily Diamond - A Little Girl's Gifts from her Feathered Friends

Watching and feeding the birds is one of the wonderful things about having a garden, but that in itself is pleasure enough. But imagine if the birds reciprocated?
Crows in particular often bond with the humans that feed them, and that’s how it is for eight-year-old Gabi Mann from Seattle......
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Daily Diamond - Making Beautiful 'Biomusic' Together: Pianos and Fungi

Take a moment and think about the beautiful music that could be made with a piano and… fungus.
“What on Earth…?”, you may be thinking. Well, Professor Eduardo Miranda from Plymouth University is also a arts festival director and musician, and he’s been inspired by......
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Daily Diamond - Schools to Get Better Careers Advice?

Careers advice in schools in England isn’t currently that great, but a new report from Teach First could be able to change all that…
Teach First is a charity and social enterprise that aims to end inequality in education. They recently carried out and published a report suggesting......
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Daily Diamond - Red Nose Day is Nearly Upon Us - Check Out the Line-Up!

It’s an odd-numbered year, which means something we’ve all been waiting is nearly upon us… Red Nose Day! And the line-up this year is truly stellar.
Red Nose Day, also called Comic Relief, is a whole evening dedicated to comedy in aid of raising money for various projects aimed......
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Daily Diamond - Look, No Wires - Charge Your Phone on Your Furniture

If you have a mobile phone, then you are probably familiar with the ongoing battle with the charger. We frequently lose them, they often get tangled, and a few of you will know the troubles of having pets chew through cables…
Well, what if we told you that it was possible to simply place......
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Daily Diamond - Coffee, Coffee, Good for the Heart?

It’s a debate that has been going on for what feels like forever – is coffee good or bad for you?
Unfortunately, the answers isn’t as clear cut as you might have thought; there has yet to be any conclusive evidence to support one side more than the other.
However, a new study......
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Daily Diamond - 50-Years-Lost Chilean Plane - Found by Mountaineering Team

Let’s set the scene… It’s April 3, 1961, and a passenger plane carrying 24 people is reported missing.
Amongst its passengers, the aircraft had the coach and eight players from now-extinct Chilean football club, the Green Cross. There were also three referees aboard the......
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Daily Diamond - Can't Find Love Online? Try These Scientifically Proven Tips!

Some people can spend weeks, even months, on dating sites, trying to find their one true love. But somehow, they get passed by. Why?
According to research published in the BMJ: Evidence Based Medicine, there are little ways you can enhance your profile and self-image across to potential partners......
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Daily Diamond - Cutting Peanut Allergy Risk with Early Exposure

For years, parents have been following advice stating that children under the age of five shouldn’t eat peanut-based products for fear of an allergic reaction.
Giving young children peanuts could also indeed be a choking risk, but what about foods like smooth peanut butter or delicious......
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Daily Diamond - A Song and Dance About Teaching

Take a moment to think about how many teachers there are in your city and country. Now, consider how many there must be in the world. Out of all of those teachers, only one can be selected as the winner of the Global Teacher Prize. And you can guarantee that whoever takes that prize home with......
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Daily Diamond - Online Justice with eBay-Like Courts?

A new report from the Civil Justice Council has recommended that low-value civil court cases in England and Wales could be dealt with online, in an online disputes system like that used by online marketplace eBay.
According to the report, which has been welcome by Her Majesty’s Courts and......
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Daily Diamond - US Scientists Urge to Seek Contact with Alien Life

Scientists at the SETI Institute have said at a conference in the US that it is time for us to start actively seeking contact with alien life.
The SETI, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, has been in operation for more than 30 years, use radio telescopes to listen for signals from outer......
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Daily Diamond - Grecia to Get a 3D-Printed Prosthetic Beak

Here at Daily Diamond, we love the stories about animals being given a new lease of life with prosthetics. You might remember us telling you about Dudley the duck getting a new leg after losing his in a fight with some chickens.
So, we couldn’t wait to share this......
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Daily Diamond - Tattooing a Fresh Start

Chris Baker of Chicago in the US has been covering up or removing tattoos for free. But Chris is not a rich man, and these are not inexpensive things to carry out, so why would someone do it free of charge?
Chris and his family moved from LA to Chicago around eight years ago. When they first......
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Daily Diamond - St Andrews Uni Offers Booze-Free Student Housing

University is a time that many associate with partying and drinking in between studying for their degree. Sure, you’re there to learn and whatever, but partying can make up a big part of your life during this important time.
But what if you don’t like drinking or partying? Maybe a......
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Daily Diamond - Breath Test to Detect Lung Cancer

Less than two months after the death of his wife of colon cancer, Dr Billy Boyle and his company have invented a breath test that can detect lung cancer.
Former advisor to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as CEO of the charity Africa Governance Initiative, Kate Gross was diagnosed with colon......
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Daily Diamond - Runway of Dreams: Cool Clothing for Kids of All Abilities!

Every parent just wants their children to be happy, to feel as though they fit in, to be comfortable in their own skin. But for some families this is more of a challenge than for others.
For some of these people, it’s a matter of not having enough money; beggars can’t be choosers and......
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Daily Diamond - 170 Orphans Find Home with Tibetan Monk

In April, 2010, an earthquake shook an autonomous region of China called Yushu. More than 15,000 people were missing, injured, or had died after it had passed.
After the earthquake, children across Yushu now found themselves orphans, their homes and families torn apart by the earthquake.
33 of......
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Daily Diamond - The New Easy Way to Transfer Money - by Email!

With online and mobile bank transfers, putting money into someone else’s bank account – or having them put money in yours – has never been easier… Or has it?
Google has taken the steps to make it ever easier to transfer small amounts of cash to your family or friends,......
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Daily Diamond - Goodbye Swipe Cards, Hello Microchips Embedded in the Skin?

As with almost all technology in our lives, as soon as we get used to something and how it works, a shinier, brand-new replacement comes out.
The same can be said for swipe cards: we use them to get on buses, gain entry into our workplaces, buy our lunch… You get the picture.
But an office......
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Daily Diamond - Learning to Love Yourself

Can you remember the last time you treated yourself and actually felt like you deserved it? Or – no matter how silly it sounds – when the last time said, “I love you” to yourself?
You might think it sounds a little silly, but according a website called Happify, we can......
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Daily Diamond - The Rothschild Bronzes... by Michelangelo?!

Michelangelo isn’t normally the first artist to spring to one’s mind when thinking about bronze sculpture. But his name is certainly on a few people’s lips at the moment, when discussing the Rothschild Bronzes.
The bronze statues were found in the 19th century, in the private......
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Daily Diamond - Boy Gets Best Birthday Present Ever!

There are some things we become really passionate about that other people just don’t ‘get’ – perhaps something you got into when you were a child that you just never laid down.

Dylan Johnson, from Virginia in the US, is like that. Ever since he was two years old, he has......
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Daily Diamond - MPs Vote in Favour of Three-Person IVF

Back in July, we told you about the UK’s progression towards three-person IVF. The procedure in question involves creating a baby using DNA from three people, a man and two women.
The buzz surrounding this contentious topic isn’t something to be taken lightly, but the technique also......
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Daily Diamond - Promising New 'Paperclip' Blood-Pressure Device

High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects roughly 16 million people in the UK – around one in three adults. Hypertension can usually be managed with medication, but around 5% of people with such high blood pressure that it isn’t affected by drugs.
While high blood pressure might......
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Daily Diamond - Natural History Museum to Replace Dippy with Blue Whale

For the last 35 years, visitors to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London have been welcomed by Dippy, a plaster-cast replica Diplodocus.
But despite Dippy’s impressive size, he just doesn’t provide the ‘wow’ factor that museum organisers want the guests to feel when......
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Daily Diamond - The DIF: A New Microscopic Imaging Centre

After millions of pounds invested in imaging technology and two long years of work, Dundee University in Scotland has finally opened its new microscopic imaging centre, the Dundee Imaging Facility (DIF).
The DIF comprises of various forms of imaging technology, including super-resolution and......
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Daily Diamond - The Devon Beavers... Can Stay!!

“England” isn’t going to be anyone’s first guess when asked “Where might you find beavers?” – and yet, up until the 16th century, beavers were actually quite common in Great Britain.
Unfortunately, before our time, the animals were hunted to extinction,......
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Daily Diamond - The CV Man is Now Hiring!

In this day and age, hundreds upon hundreds of people can be applying for the same role. Of course, there is often only one position to fill, so what can a person do to make themselves stand out?
A unique approach to the job hunt could be what it takes to attract employers and land the role of......
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Daily Diamond - Reading the Vesuvius Scrolls

Imagine, within your grasp, a scroll from the first-century AD, holding the secrets of the long-gone past.
Unfortunately, this rolled-scroll was buried by Mount Vesuvius, the same volcano that obliterated Pompeii, and is nothing but a charred and burnt relic that could crumble if the wind blew......
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Daily Diamond - India's Tigers are Making a Comeback!

Our whole lives it seems we are told about the ever-decreasing numbers of endangered animals and how they will probably become extinct in our lifetime.
But (as always) we have good news!
Official figures from last week indicate that the population of tigers in India has boosted by almost a third......
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Daily Diamond - New Heart Attack Test for Women

According to experts, if both a man and women visited the emergency room complaining of chest pains, the male would be twice as likely to be diagnosed with a heart attack than the female.
But this isn’t because twice as many men suffer from heart attacks than women. All of the tell-tale......
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Daily Diamond - Masha the Homeless Cat Saves Baby

More often than not, when you hear about a child being saved by an animal, that animal is usually of the canine variety. In fact, you might even remember us telling you about 3-year-old Carson, who went missing from his back garden, but was kept safe by his dog, Cooper.
But hero stories about......
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Daily Diamond - School Publishes Free Exam-Syllabus Textbooks Online

Buying textbooks for your child can be one of the biggest expenses when they reach exam-taking age. But what if everything you needed was free was very literally at your fingertips?
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a leading private school in Cambridge, with some of the best results in England.......
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Daily Diamond - Biggest Collection of Marilyn Memorabilia Going Under the Hammer

Have you ever thought what it would be like to own something as iconic as the red sequined dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Well, now you can!
Various examples of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia will soon be going up for auction, thanks to David Gainsborough Roberts from......
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Daily Diamond - Long Naps Could Boost Babies' Learning

Scientists from England and Germany think they have found the key to learning and retaining new information in babies and toddlers – napping!
We already know that very young children need to have daytime sleeps to aid them in crucial physical and mental developments. Despite how much we......
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Daily Diamond - Soft Implant to Help with Paralysis?

Helping paralysed people to walk again is up there with curing cancer and HIV/AIDS. Doctors and scientists have been striving towards it for a long time now, and last year seemed to be a year of medical marvels, with progress in all those departments coming on in leaps and bounds.
We told you......
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Daily Diamond - On the Flip-Side - Study of Tortoises Stuck on their Backs

 
A question that many people deem only a philosophical and hypothetical quandary… When a tortoise has flipped onto its back, how does it get back up again?
But being stuck upside down can be a very real problem for tortoises, but surprisingly, one that hasn’t been investigated in much......
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