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A Purdue scientist's claim to have achieved a new kind of fusion has sparked a furious reaction among his critics.
Rusi Taleyarkhan, now a professor of nuclear engineering at Purdue U., published a 2002 paper in Science about experiments on bubble fusion at a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. (Photograph by Lynn Freeny, U.S. Department of Energy)

• CONGRESSIONAL ATTENTION: A U.S. House of Representatives committee has questioned the credibility of the university's investigation into possible research misconduct.

Purdue's efforts to license tissue-engineering technologies have entangled it in lawsuits involving a leading researcher and a commercial partner.

Once buffeted by the fickle winds of literary theory, William Major finds himself at home with Wendell Berry's agrarianism.

Explanations for life on earth have included divine intervention and incredible luck. But the real answer may be as strange, and as natural, as quantum physics, writes Paul Davies, a professor at Arizona State University.

The astronomers who demoted Pluto are out in left field — way out, writes David A. Weintraub, a professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University.

Research Notes

1 EYE, 6 LEGS, NO FIRES: Undergraduates at the Monterrey Institute of Technology have developed a spiderlike robot that may one day troll the woods searching for potential wildfires.