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A Year of Revolutions: How 1989 changed the world
Source: TIME

I never realized how much happened in 1989. This covers the fall of the berlin wall to rave culture, Its another excellent piece done by TIME.

Scientists in possible cold fusion breakthrough
Source: Google

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is "significant" evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community.

Cold fusion experimentally confirmed
Source: eetimes.com

U.S. Navy researchers claimed to have experimentally confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting.

Cold fusion is back: scientists report evidence

Scientists at the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California, reported scientific evidence supporting the existence of cold fusion at a meeting of the American Chemical Society at Salt Lake City in Utah, United States, on Monday.

New Hopes For Cold Fusion at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
Source: newscientist.com

Pamela Mosier-Boss and colleagues at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California, are claiming to have made a "significant" discovery – clear evidence of the products of cold fusion. More Articles

...As Crucial Test Remains Under Wraps | Danger Room from Wired.com
Source: Wired News

In 1999, Pentagon-funded researcher Carl Collins claimed that he was able to get a nuclear isomer of Hafnium 178m2 to release an enormous amount of gamma radiation -- despite only putting a relative small bit of energy in.

Colossal construction: The world's nine largest science projects
Source: discoverychannel.ca

Some have been heralded as the largest undertakings since the building of the pyramids. Others have been likened to a new set of wonders of the world.

Cold-fusion demonstration by leading Japanese physicist promises repeatable results
Source: physicsworld.com

"Arata's demonstration...was successfully done. There came about 60 people from universities and companies in Japan and few foreign people.

The Salvage from the Energy Crisis?
Source: bestsyndication.com

In 1989 the chemistry professors Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishman reported that they had achieved cold fusion in a palladium anode emerged in a solution of sodium deuteroxide in heavy water D2O.

Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes
Source: dailytech.com

New proof that cold fusion works could fuel additional interest in generating power from low energy nuclear reactions

Cold Fusion is Back at the American Chemical Society
Source: News at Nature

Chemistry meeting grants audience to low-energy nuclear work.After an 18-year hiatus, the American Chemical Society (ACS) seems to be warming to cold fusion.

'Cold Fusion' Rebirth? Symposium Explores Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
Source: Science Daily

In 1989, 'cold fusion' was hailed as a scientific breakthrough with the potential to solve the world's energy problems by providing a virtually unlimited energy source.

13 things that do not make sense
Source: New Scientist

1 The placebo effect 2 The horizon problem 3 Ultra-energetic cosmic rays 4 Belfast homeopathy results 5 Dark matter 6 Viking's methane 7 Tetraneutrons 8 The Pioneer anomaly 9 Dark energy 10 The Kuiper cliff

Scam of the Century or the Edge of Transcendence? The Mystery of BlackLight Power

When we think of the energy resources that we rely upon everyday, what words come to mind? Oil. Nuclear. Hydroelectricity. Solar. Hydrino. Wind. Gas.

Cold Fusion, the unlimited energy source: A myth or reality?
Source: nigeriaworld.com

Can it possibly make sense to reopen the cold fusion investigation? A surprising number of researchers have already done so.

Nuclear fusion | Once is happenstance...Serious doubts about claims for fusion in collapsing bubbles | Economist.com
Source: The Economist

MAKE a mistaken claim in any branch of science, and endeavours in that field may be tainted for years. Faced with two such claims, the field is definitely in trouble. And that now seems to be the case for so-called "tabletop fusion".

(4 of 4) Nature.com notes refusal of patent for fusion by sonoluminescence
Source: News at Nature

"The US patent office has been drawn into the debate over whether bubble fusion has been achieved.

(2 of 4) Nature.com airs troubling patterns in research around fusion by sonoluminescence
Source: News at Nature

"Several of his colleagues there have revealed to Nature that their confidence in Taleyarkhan's work has been seriously dented since he assumed his full-time post in their department in 2004."

(3 of 4) Nature.com airs troubling patterns in research around fusion by sonoluminescence
Source: News at Nature

"Data claimed in January to be evidence for bubble fusion are actually a much better match for the radioactive decay of a standard lab source - by a factor of more than 100 million."

(1 of 4) Nature.com airs troubling patterns in research around fusion by sonoluminescence
Source: News at Nature

Overview of problems in Taleyarkhan's research including concerns of colleagues whom he prevented from publishing negative results in their attempt to reproduce his work and observations that the published neutron spectra strongly match the decay of californium-252.

Desktop fusion is back on the table - Physicist claims to have definitive data, but can they be replicated?
Source: News at Nature

Can the popping of tiny bubbles trigger nuclear fusion, a potential source of almost unlimited energy? This controversial idea is back on the table, because its main proponent has new results that, he claims, will silence critics.

The trick is knowing when to stop...

The trick in engineering, sometimes, is realizing that you've gone so far off track, that you need to stop and reassess things.

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