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It’s been three long years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global health emergency. So what can we expect the virus to do next?

World Athletics is set to keep the door open for transgender women to compete at the highest level under a ‘preferred option’ proposal to be voted on in March

When we think of evolution, we tend to picture slow changes occurring over very long periods of time, typically millions of years. However, evolution can actually happen much faster, over only a few generations: think COVID-19 strains, for example. And this fast evolution isn’t just restricted to viruses and microbes.

Happy gut, happy life

An eastern fence lizard basking in the sun feels a small red ant walk over its back. Not hungry, it ignores the insect. Soon there are lots of ants crawling up its legs, biting the scales that usually protect it and inserting their stingers in its soft underlying flesh.

Changes in your skin could mean a problem with your gut, and wider health worries

An Australian researcher has helped detect a molecular receptor in the colon which could lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome.

"We are destroying species that were built up over millions of years and are invaluable to society and for generations, and we don't know how fast they're disappearing," Wilson said.

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, was horrified by how sperm looked under the microscope