SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS - Tuesday, July 17th 9p | 12a ET Cold Fusion Is Hot Again A report on cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun, but made at room temperatures on a tabletop, which in 1989, was presented as a revolutionary new source of energy that promised to be cheap, limitless and clean but was quickly dismissed as junk science. Today, scientists believe that cold fusion, now most often called low temperature fusion or a nuclear effect, could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production.
The Collider A report on the Large Hadron Collider, a massive scientific instrument located 300 feet underground the border between Switzerland and France. It has taken twenty years and $8 billion to build. With it, physicists hope to discover sub-atomic particles so tiny that they’ve never before detected, particles they think will explain how the universe has organized itself into so many different entities.
