Yes, you read that correctly. And though this is not a recent story (it is two months' old this very day), it nevertheless intrigued me, and I think you'll see why at the end of this blog. But here, in a nutshell, is the story: a US firm, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, and an Iranian university, the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, have signed an agreement to cooperate in research and publishing of papers on aneutronic fusion processes and technologies: International collaboration established to speed science What interested me here was not simply the US Treasury Department's … [Read more...]