I don't want to reject this out out hand but this isn't the first time a research university has said they appeared to have some support for cold fusion. Georgia Tech got horribly embarrassed when they made a similar announcement and then peer review revealed they had forgotten to subtract a key component of background radiation.
It would be nice if it were true though.
This is bigger news, if true, because this is the first time the results have been reproduced.
The control beaker pretty much takes care of that problem. The acetone without deuterium showed no signs of fusion. The acetone with deuterium did. To the extent you can tell from popular press, this looks like a well designed experiment that produced strong results.