DWP benefit claimants face payments cut next year

DWP benefit claimants face payments cut next year

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Thousands of British people in receipt of regular benefits payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) face seeing their entitlement cut from April 2024 despite the 6.7 per cent raise announced … Read more

New model sheds light on grassland desertification dynamics

New model sheds light on grassland desertification dynamics

Scientists conduct grassland sampling surveys in Xilingol. Credit: AIR In a study published in Remote Sensing, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed a Desertification Difference Index (DDI) model to better understand and combat global grassland desertification. The study focused on extracting desertification information using … Read more

Storm Gerrit live: Weather warnings in place as trains cancelled and major incident declared in Scotland

Storm Gerrit live: Weather warnings in place as trains cancelled and major incident declared in Scotland

File: Snow blankets Scottish towns as Met Office issues two weather warnings For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Rail passengers have been warned not to attempt journeys north of Preston after hundreds of trains … Read more

Older workers still struggle with work-life balance—and there’s no one-size-fits-all remedy

Older workers still struggle with work-life balance—and there’s no one-size-fits-all remedy

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The idea that we can comfortably manage all the different facets of life—work, family, other responsibilities—is certainly appealing. But in reality, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to work-life balance—especially for older workers. Making up a third of the New Zealand workforce, older workers (aged 55 and older) are a growing cohort … Read more

Switching off from work has never been harder, or more necessary. Here’s how to do it

Switching off from work has never been harder, or more necessary. Here’s how to do it

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the hit dystopian TV series “Severance,” employees at biotech corporation Lumon Industries find it easy to separate work and home life. A computer chip is inserted in their brains to act as a “mindwipe.” They leave all thoughts of home behind while at work, and completely forget about their work … Read more

2 Australians killed in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, says Australia’s acting foreign minister

2 Australians killed in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, says Australia’s acting foreign minister

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Two Australian citizens including an alleged Hezbollah fighter were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, Australia’s acting foreign minister said on Thursday. Ibrahim Bazzi and his brother … Read more

Light measurement enables estimation of the chemical attributes of spice extracts

Light measurement enables estimation of the chemical attributes of spice extracts

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Spices and other plant-derived products contain many active components, such as polyphenols and flavonoids. However, even the slightest variations in conditions can considerably affect the extraction efficiency of these active components, posing challenges in determining the exact quantity of active components in the extract solution. In a new study published in … Read more

NASA craft to study giant asteroid that will fly by Earth in 2029

NASA craft to study giant asteroid that will fly by Earth in 2029

(NewsNation) — NASA has decided not to rest on its laurels when it comes to asteroid exploration. The federal space agency plans to reuse a spacecraft that recently collected samples from the asteroid Bennu in a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey. OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) completed its mission in … Read more