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The uproar transformed last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas into the scientific equivalent of a championship basketball game. The Dallas conference packed in some 7,000 chemists hoping for what society executive director John Crum called "the experience of a lifetime." The crowd was there...
Ever since Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischman of the University of Southhampton announced last month that they had sparked nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature, some pundits have speculated that the use of the cheap, virtually endless supply of energy would change the...
The March 23 announcement of University of Utah scientists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann that they had discovered "cold fusion" triggered a huge scramble among physicists and chemists from Palo Alto to Moscow to verify their results.
"It's not just the press," Parker says. "Some of the scientists, as well, have been hyping the results." Some individuals charge that Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, who announced the intial discovery on March 23, released the information in a way designed to maximize publicity and to minimize the...
Last week, in an unusual move, a Dutch scientific journal pushed forward its schedule and published the report by Pons and Fleischmann. But at week's end the more prestigious British journal Nature had not yet decided whether to print their findings. The scientific community, while not at all convinced...