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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