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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