Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?

The small clay cylinders are engraved with symbols thought to be letters.Credit: Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University Clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria and dated to 4,400 years

Experimental model and study participant details The sex, age and ethnicity of participants and their clinical manifestation details during acute MIS-C are reported in Extended Data Table 1 and in

We’ve seen the headlines: on 14 February, the US Department of Education ruled that race-based scholarships and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes violate civil-rights law. Universities that don’t dismantle