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<jats:p>Last week, the chair of a presidential panel on human space flight told two congressional panels that NASA doesn't have enough money to carry out the current plan to build a big rocket to take humans back to the moon and that the United States should consider other destinations and launchers.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A new analysis of the grantsmaking process at the National Institutes of Health lifts the veil on how many grant proposals are funded even though they fall below a cutoff based on peer-review scores.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Many science advocates were pleased last week when a National Academies panel called for a multidisciplinary initiative to address four major societal problems involving food, energy, the environment, and health.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Highlights from <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW this week include antplant ants that branch out, the solar system's coldest spot, gene therapy that gives monkeys color vision, and a magnetized gas that points to new physics. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, a ceremony in Pyongyang commemorated completion of the $35 million Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, which after 4 years of delays is expected to open in November to the crème de la crème of North Korea's science graduate students.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider this week reported on a flurry of developments on swine flu preparations, a new report highlighting the possibility of producing power using underground coal gasification, and a new Web site where NIH-funded scientists can request approval to use human embryonic stem cell lines, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A nearly 3-decade-old telex message regarding the scientific evaluation of a disposal site for highly radioactive nuclear waste in Germany has become a prominent issue in the campaign leading up to Sunday's national elections.</jats:p>

<jats:p> China's first space-based observatory, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope, is scheduled for launch next year, but <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> has learned that no government agency has stepped forward to pay the estimated $146 million to build the satellite—putting the mission in jeopardy. </jats:p>

<jats:p>In a more ambitious study than any before, psychologist Bernard Gesch is leading a research team hoping to replicate controversial results showing that nutritional supplements can reduce violence among prisoners.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Radio telescopes that substitute antenna arrays for dishes are gearing up to look back to the brink of the "dark ages" that followed the big bang.</jats:p>