This seems really cool, but my two main thoughts when I see something like this are: how badly are they misreporting this, and will anyone bother writing an article about the retraction a few months down the road when it turns out this was something completely different?

“A possible explanation involves a process known as cold welding, which occurs under ambient temperatures whenever metal surfaces come close enough together for their respective atoms to tangle together.”

Am i silly or where is the difference? Cold welding is known for a long time, nothing to be stunned about.