Science news articles about 'cold fusion'

... too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly ... produces almost zero waste. Essentially, cold fusion would make oil obsolete.

... , in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the first description of cold fusion. "Our finding is very significant," says study co- ... of Cold Fusion." (ENVR 049, Monday, March 23, 3:35 p.m., Hilton, ...

Presented in 1989 as a revolutionary new source of energy, cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But as Scott Pelley reports, the buzz now among scientists is that the ...

... mythical holy grail of energy production. Nuclear fusion—the mashing together of two hydrogen atoms ... requiring tremendous pressure and heat to succeed. Cold fusion, which is still very much a fantasy, ...

Much like cold fusion, nano-computing always seems ten years off. The years go by, technology advances, but the goal doesn’t seem to get any closer. Last week, however, a team of Purdue ...

... ", boomed the press release (their caps). Wow. What could it be? Cold fusion? A cure for AIDS? Life in Uranus? The press conference promised to "unveil a major historic scientific find" ...

General Fusion, the Canadian duo who hope to produce a cold fusion power plant for perhaps a tenth the cost of other such promised projects, just got a $12 million shot in the arm. read more