It is estimated that 15-20% of people are neurodivergent, which means they have brain structures and cognitive processes that differ from what societies view as typical. In the workplace, neurodivergent employees may struggle with the daily social interactions that some people enjoy and benefit from – small talk leads to networking, which leads to new opportunities. Researchers are interviewing neurodivergent workers in the UK as part of an ongoing project aimed at understanding how socialisation affects their career development, job satisfaction and ultimate flourishing. The researchers write that some organisations are already “redesigning interaction spaces with clearer social protocols, diverse communication channels and explicit networking pathways” to help.

Ireland has recently experienced a series of severe storms that have brought strong winds, more intense floods, and blackouts: storm Éowyn left more than a million people without power in January. The country has a moderate climate – its record high is a relatively cool 33°C – but its location on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean makes it especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

You may have sipped a Cabernet Sauvignon recently, but do you know where it came from? In the 1990s, a geneticist helped trace the DNA of its grapes back to the red Cabernet Franc grape and the white Sauvignon Blanc grape, which may have cross-pollinated in the Bordeaux region around the 17th century. More recent investigations uncovered the origins of Chardonnay and Tempranillo grapes. How the following will taste depends on the oenophile: the grapevine genome has now been fully sequenced, and new wine varieties produced by genetic engineering are certain to emerge.