Daily Diamond - Gecko-Gloves for Climbing Like Spiderman

Most of us would have watched Spiderman scaling the side of a building using just his hands and wondered what it would be like if it were really possible to be able to do such a thing. Well, now it is possible, thanks to scientists from Stanford University in the US.
The team, led by mechanical......
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Daily Diamond - Reindeer Police to the Rescue in Russia

In the far north of Russia lies the Arctic Tundra, a stark and frozen landscape that is difficult to navigate at the best of times. In northwest Siberia is a region called Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Here, the police struggle to maintain law and order across the difficult terrain –......
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Daily Diamond - Talking Therapies Shown to Reduce Suicide Risk

When it comes to illnesses like depression, many people dismiss the idea of talking therapies as something that simply doesn’t work. But according to a new study coming out of the US, talk-therapy sessions can actually reduce the risk of suicide in people who have previously attempted to take......
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Daily Diamond - Wikipedia Page-Views Can Predict Disease Outbreaks

Trying to stay ahead of outbreak trends is not an easy task. It usually involves laboratory tests, collecting data, calls to doctors’ surgeries and trying to keep track of the number of people who visit health facilities. This process might be accurate, but it is also slow and expensive, and......
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Daily Diamond - Twins Find Out They're Identical for Liver Transplant

The first ever UK live donor liver transplant involving identical twins took place earlier this year – but the twins didn’t know they were identical until one of them needed surgery.
Annemarie Atha and Geraldine Rowing, both 48 and from Leeds, were always told by their mother that they......
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Daily Diamond - Life-Size Katniss Sponge is Icing on the Cake...

Last year, Lara Clarke from the West Midlands made headlines around the world with her entry in the Cake International bakers’ competition in Birmingham. Swaying rather far from traditional cakes, Lara’s “almost life-sized” cake of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of......
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Daily Diamond - Alibaba Breaks Records with Singles' Day

Within only the first 17 hours of China’s “Singles’ Day” shopping event, online-retail giant Alibaba had already smashed sales records, ultimately improving on last year’s sales figures by a whopping 62%.
Singles’ Day is an annual online shopping event based in China, held on......
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