Daily Diamond - Small Doses of Video Gaming are Good for Kids

We often worry about the impact playing computer games has on the development of children, but now new research suggests that gaming might not be as bad for them as we thought. In fact, not only was it found that young people who play video games for between one and three hours a day experience......
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Daily Diamond - Teenage Musician Loaned £1 Million Violin

An 18-year-old violinist has been loaned a rare instrument worth £1 million by a professional musician who is not only awed by the boy’s musical ability but has also been touched by the similarities in both of their lives and music careers.

John Ludlow’s Stradivarius violin dates back to......
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Daily Diamond - From Facial Expressions to First Impressions

It is thought that it only takes seconds for someone to form their first impression of you, with that impression able to affect future behaviour around you, and it can be difficult to change that opinion. And while we know not to judge someone purely on how they look – “don’t judge a......
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Daily Diamond - Autonomous Automobiles Could Be Hitting Our Roads Next Year!

According to Business Secretary Vince Cable, cars could be driving their own way around the UK’s streets from as early as January next year.
Mr Cable said that computer-controlled cars would be trialled in three cities around the UK, with government funding of £10 million being made available......
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Daily Diamond - Display Screens Could Help People with Vision Problems

In the UK, around one in three people suffer from shortsightedness, also known as myopia, in which they have difficulty seeing objects that are not near them. (Farsightedness, or hyperopia, is the opposite and affects a person’s ability to see objects that are close to them.) Myopia affects......
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Daily Diamond - Garden Cities Construction to Curb Housing Shortage

In a bid to combat the housing shortage in England, it was confirmed in April that three new “garden cities” were going to be built by 2020.
Garden cities are new towns built specifically to incorporate a large number of new homes with as much open and green space as possible. The idea is......
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Daily Diamond - One-Shot Breast Cancer Therapy Given Go-Ahead on NHS

Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease in the UK, affecting around 48,000 women and one in every 100,000 men. Treatment tends to involve surgery and many trips to the hospital for the patient to have radiotherapy, which can be both inconvenient and draining.
But those trips could......
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