《科学》杂志有时会收到一些论文，使我们在处置上特费心思，因为这些文章可能会引起争议，或者因为它很重要，或者两者兼有。最近发表的Taleyarkhan等人的文章就是这种情况。我们处理此文的历史情况揭示在出版过程中可能出现的一些异常的难题。此文报道了在声波和中子辐照下氘 Science sometimes receives dissertations that make it trickier to dispose of, as the articles may be controversial, either because it is important, or both. This is the case with the recently published article by Taleyarkhan et al. The history of this article we deal with reveals some of the anomalous problems that may arise in the publishing process. This article reports on deuterium under sonic and neutron irradiation