Michael Marshall

Some people who become ill with the coronavirus develop neurological symptoms. Scientists are struggling to understand why.

Months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, some people are still battling crushing fatigue, lung damage and other symptoms of ‘long COVID’

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a major source of air pollution, especially in sunny and hot places

The largest dinosaurs of all may have started life looking very different from how they did as adults

An animal that lived 429 million years ago had compound eyes almost identical to those of modern insects like bees and dragonflies

Stone Age people were cremating their dead in fire pits about 9000 years ago, in what is now Israel

Immunologists say there is no way to be sure that the vaccine is safe, let alone effective, and that Russia seems to be cutting corners

A chemical released by locusts turns out to encourage them to swarm. The discovery could help us control the insects, which can destroy swathes of crops

It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang

A baffling extinct animal was actually a marine reptile that may have used its extremely long neck to ambush prey

Hunter-gatherers in Africa may have been using poison-tipped arrows for more than 70,000 years

The first mammals were small and elusive, but that didn’t stop them chowing down on dinosaur meat

A young Leonardo da Vinci saw a fossil whale embedded in an Italian hillside – centuries before what is currently regarded as the first description of such a fossil

People with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome have amazingly bendy joints, but they regularly suffer dislocations and chronic pain

A study of the DNA of people in the Americas with African heritage has revealed overlooked details about the transatlantic slave trade