If You're Planning to Be a Suicide Bomber …

… you'd better explode now. We will soon have ways to detect your intentions:

Teams at University College London and University of California in LA could tell what images people were looking at or what sounds they were listening to.

The US team say their study proves brain scans do relate to brain cell electrical activity.

The UK team say such research might help paralysed people communicate, using a "thought-reading" computer.