COVID and your gut: how a healthy microbiome can reduce the severity of infection – and vice versa: Helena Nechaeva/Shutterstock A vast combination of microorganisms live in our gut, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. Collectively, we refer to this as the the microbiome. Despite their tiny size, these microbes have significant effects on our health …
How your colleagues affect your home life (and vice versa): shutterstock There are benefits to being part of a couple in which both are in paid work. A dual income brings, if not necessarily great wealth, at least an element of greater economic freedom, while the relationship can be a source of love and support. …
South America is filled with mammals of North American origin but not vice versa – and scientists have figured out why: Sabre-tooth tiger _Smilodon_ meets the South American marsupial, _Thylacosmilus_. This is a classic image of supposedly 'superior northerners' outcompeting 'inferior southerners', but such meetings actually rarely happened as many of the southern species had …