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Published online 10 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060508-8

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Bubble-fusion group suffer setback

Team admits a mix-up with one of their neutron detectors.

A group of researchers making high-profile claims about fusion energy has admitted to accidentally using equipment different from that reported in their most recent paper.

An erratum providing details of the mistake by Rusi Taleyarkhan of Purdue University and colleagues has been published in Physical Review Letters1.

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