On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me

Rip up the chariot

Forget about the telly

Let's play scratch cards

Coins out to scratching

Everybody laughing better not be cheating

And the chance to win a pound or three

Add some play to Christmas

With scratch cards from the National Lottery.

Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply.

Players and gifters must be 18 or over.

And they're just to win a pound or three.

Hi everyone. It's Nick from the Nature podcast here.

Most of the team are out on assignment at the moment,

so we've got a little bit of an abbreviated show this week.

Later on, Nisha Gaines will be joining me for a special extended news chat.

But before that, Benjamin Thompson is heading back to 1989

to hear about a big claim that ultimately came to nothing.

30 years ago, two US-based researchers claimed to have seen evidence of something extraordinary.

Chemists, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman announced to the world

that they'd seen signs of hydrogen atoms fusing to create helium.

What they described is called nuclear fusion.

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