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Published online 27 April 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050425-3

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Crystal creates table-top fusion

It won't solve our energy crisis, but could help treat cancer.

At first, it sounds like the biggest science story of the century: scientists have invented a desktop fusion machine.

If nuclear fusion can be made to happen at room temperatures and pressures in an average lab, then one might think the world's energy crisis is over.

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