While I was never entirely convinced by the idea of cold fusion, I knew Martin Fleischmann quite well when I was at college and he didn’t strike me as the sort of person who would just make stuff up. I figured that there had to be something going on, and that one day someone would find out what it was. So I’m rather interested in this report in which a leading Japanese physicist claims to have done his own cold fusion experiment and got a result. What’s more he performed the experiment with an audience of 60 scientists and journalists. I’m still not convinced that we have actual fusion happening here, but I’ll be very interested to see what comes of attempts to reproduce the experiment.

Thanks to Zemanta, here are some other reports of the experiment: Gizmodo, EnGadget (although both seem to have got the story from Slashdot, so they probably add nothing new, and half of you have probably seen it already).