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<jats:p>Lie-detection technology that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging scans of brain activity is not yet ready for use in the courtroom, a federal magistrate judge in Tennessee decided last week.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Simmering tensions on the Korean Peninsula are threatening to boil over following the South's accusation last month that a North Korean submarine torpedoed and sank one of its naval ships. In an interview with <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , Yoon Duk Yong, former president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, who co-led an investigation into the incident, laid out the case against the North. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Indonesia and the United States have just inked their first S&amp;T agreement, which is now awaiting ratification by Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Two high-profile initiatives are in the works.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Two pan-European bodies have begun planning a merger. The aim is to create a single, and more powerful, voice for the national science funding agencies that control some €25 billion annually—by far the largest slice of public money available to the region's scientists.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Subra Suresh, dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was nominated last week to become the next director of the National Science Foundation.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that mongooses learn by imitation, crocodiles know how to ride the tides, one kind of neutrino has been made to appear from the beam of another type of neutrino, and deadly mosquito-borne diseases may be tracked by studying the saliva the insects leave behind when they feed, among other stories. </jats:p>