This month, we are shining a spotlight on our work with the Berlinguette Research Group from the University of British Columbia (UBC).
The team focuses on designing and building reactors to convert CO2 into useful products, drive nuclear fusion at low temperatures, and electrify the fuels, chemicals, and cement industries.
In August 2025, Magnetic Communications was humbled to support the team with the announcement of their Nature paper on nuclear fusion.
Thirty-five years after the claim of “cold fusion”, the team provided repeatable proof that electrochemistry can increase nuclear fusion reaction rates at room temperature and pressure. This lays an exciting path forward for the nuclear fusion sciences.
Our work included building and implementing a targeted media outreach plan, alongside creating the press release and background materials.
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See the press release
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Read the resulting coverage in the Globe and Mail.
The research team’s work builds upon a previous multi-institutional research effort convened and funded by Google from 2015 to 2019 to re-evaluate cold fusion, a hypothesized form of nuclear fusion occurring at or near room temperature. Cold fusion was first claimed in 1989 but quickly dismissed by the scientific community due to a lack of reproducible evidence. The multi-institutional research effort, which included Dr. Berlinguette and Dr. Thomas Schenkel, published a Perspective article in Nature in 2019 and called upon the scientific community to develop a “reference experiment” with unambiguous evidence that can be independently verified and advanced.
Congrats to all the researchers in the Berlinguette Research Group who contributed to this breakthrough in nuclear fusion.