July 21, 2008

Revisiting an Old Controversy, Purdue Finds Fusion Researcher Guilty of Misconduct

By Richard Monastersky

Purdue University announced last week that one of its scientists had committed research misconduct relating to potentially revolutionary fusion experiments.

The finding by a panel that included researchers from Purdue and other universities diverges from an earlier investigation by the university, which declared Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, a professor of nuclear engineering, not guilty of misconduct (

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