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George Musser’s Journalist Portfolio

Time's End Will Be the End of Endings

Time's End Will Be the End of Endings

In our experience, nothing ever really ends. when we die, our bodies decay and the material in them returns t…

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Coincidences in My Life Have Me Wondering

Coincidences in My Life Have Me Wondering

Coincidences in My Life Have Me Wondering: My search for a hidden structure to astronomically unlikely occurr…

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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

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Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?

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| Quanta Magazine Verified
Cold fusion: Now there’s an idea I hadn’t thought about in a while. It came back onto my radar in spring 2026. I had written an article on how scientists tend to be risk averse, and Huw Price, a philosopher at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, responded to it on Bluesky, citing a paper he’d recently co-authored on attitudes toward cold fusion.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Atoms

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By George Musser Verified
| criticalopalescence.com
I’ve been thinking about nuclear fusion lately, and the first installment in my explorations is an essay today in Quanta magazine. It riffs off the cold-fusion kerfuffle of the 1980s. At the risk of bringing down a deluge of hate mail from cold-fusion true believers, the experiments back then were a wild goose chase; many were downright fraudulent. More happily, though, there’s another phenomenon that goes by the name of “cold fusion”—the original meaning of the term, in fact—and is totally legit.
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Is There More to Cold Fusion Than Failure and Fraud?

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