Cold fusion – Pons and Fleishmann In March 1989 two University of Utah (USA) scientists announced to the world, via a press conference, that they had discovered cold fusion by the measurement of excess heat in a simple electrolysis cell. Almost all now agree that this was an artefact of the experiment – but should they have gone public? Chemists and Physicists may read: M. Fleischmann and B. S. Pons, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 261 301–308 (1989)