Purdue Will Reinvestigate Its Professor Who Claimed Desktop Fusion

Three months after it cleared him of research misconduct, Purdue University has begun a new inquiry into a professor who claims to have generated nuclear fusion in a desktop experiment, the university acknowledged yesterday.

The new inquiry goes beyond the focus of an earlier one, which looked at whether the professor, Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, improperly omitted himself as an author on two scientific papers. For the first time, a committee is examining whether the underlying research might have been fraudulent.


Meanwhile, details of the earlier inquiry have emerged in a report by a Congressional subcommittee that reviewed Purdue