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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Humboldt University in Berlin have developed a way to capture nearly all the light emitted from tiny diamond defects known as color centers.

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A difficult co-worker, she’s not only in everybody’s private business but she seethes with resentment when her customers defect to her colleagues.

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While Badenoch was conducting a string of media interviews, Reform UK announced that 20 Conservative councillors were defecting.

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The party has been losing support to Reform, and some former Conservatives MPs - and one current one - have defected to Nigel Farage's party.

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Ms Jones, from the Vale of Glamorgan, says she was born "with a defect in my kidneys" and has suffered with UTIs every other month since she was 18 years old.

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