Not exactly a "cold case" as there are regular conferences on work in "LENR" (low energy nuclear reactions). Given the bulk of the work, and the results AFAICT

Not exactly a "cold case" as there are regular conferences on work in "LENR" (low energy nuclear reactions). Given the bulk of the work, and the results AFAICT it is slowly shedding some of the 'snake oil' reputation and developing a "definitely something here which is not explained by the current understanding" sort of vibe. As it points out in the article, this is a group effort to come up with a solid, reliably reproducible experiment, that demonstrates the effect. In that way everyone can baseline to a common phenomena and a common experimental setup for comparing notes.