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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