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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