Bose Once Debunked Cold Fusion. Yes, That Bose

You probably know Bose from its line of expensive Wave radios or noise-canceling headphones. What you may not know is that the company played a role in debunking cold fusion back in the early 1990s.

Okay, let’s back up. In 1989, a couple of scientists named Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann claimed that the excess energy generated from a laboratory experiment was because of a nuclear reaction at room temperature — known colloquially as “cold fusion.” The scientific community rejected the idea when it couldn’t reproduce the results, but the question remained: Where did the excess energy come from? Read more...

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