Michael Marshall

As 'corridor care' becomes routine in hospitals across the UK, Doctors.net.uk examines whether the telephone triage service is truly part of the problem, as many emergency medics fear

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like Malta and Australia

The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. But why do only some people who catch it develop these complications? The answer may lie in our genetics

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human

A trial will finally reveal whether limiting the time teens spend on social media really does affect their mental health

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years ago, and suggests they lived in a range of habitats

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to a swathe of surprising archaeological discoveries

Whole-body MRI screening is booming in the private sector, yet radiologists and health economists say the scans will inevitably find abnormalities that lead to needless worry, wasteful investigations and diverted NHS resources

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge

Discoveries in Jurassic rocks reveal that birds were adept fliers earlier than scientists realized

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct types. The implications for how we support autistic people could be profound

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less compelling

The largest study so far into the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis, has implicated 259 genes – six times more than those identified just four months ago

The Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how eukaryotes first emerged