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Distinguished electrochemist whose claims for cold fusion have yet to find widespread acceptanceAccounts of the cold fusion claims of the Czech-born electrochemist Martin Fleischmann, who has died aged 85, and his American-French...

The risk from radiation is exaggerated. Worst-case scenario fantasies are used to justify wars that cause many more deathsSome books are written to be read, others to be put in a cannon and blasted at the seat of power. Two...

Was Fossil Ida all hype? This 47-million-year-old skeleton was certainly beautiful but was it really the missing link? In the studio, James Randerson, Ian Sample and Nature magazine's Adam Rutherford joins Alok Jha to take...

In this week's show, our new columnist Chris French, who edits the Skeptic magazine, discusses what it means to be a sceptic and why he thinks sceptical thinking is making a comeback.

20 years after bringing ignominy and academic exile to its founding scientists, the idea of free energy at room temperature is making a comeback