There was just this one problem: No other scientists could reproduce the two physicists» results, and
cold fusion research took a huge P.R. hit.
Within the year, Hagelstein says, he plans to begin conducting
cold fusion research at MIT, an institution that once held a ceremonial wake in cold fusion's honor.
Now Martin Fleischmann is gone, what's in store for
cold fusion research?
Not exact matches
When a widely reported breakthrough in «
cold fusion» was revealed to be a hoax 21 years ago, it set back the credibility, if not the momentum, of one of mankind's greatest and longest - running
research efforts.
Michael McKubre is an electrochemist who specialises in
cold fusion at the independent, non-profit
research institute SRI International in Menlo Park, California
In some cases, it is embodied in areas of
research like
cold fusion / LENR that simply will not go away, even when given up on as false by a majority of scientists.
The
research was summarily condemned, and
cold fusion became a synonym for junk science.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the Japanese company whose
research offshoot Advanced Film Technology (AFTI) recently announced that it had achieved
cold fusion in a laboratory, is now selling «
cold fusion kits».
Prions have been the
cold fusion of infectious disease
research, but the Chicago researchers have proved that prion - like elements exist — at least in yeast.
Since reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific process, if one
research comes up with some bizarre result (think
cold fusion) and it can't be reproduced, it's tossed out.