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Cold fusion announced
March 23, 1989
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Two chemists announced tabletop nuclear fusion at a press conference rather than in a journal, and the university filed patents the same week. Nobody could reproduce it. The episode is now the standard example of science by press release.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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