By Jove, what a corker of a week for chaps (and chapettes) who dare to dream, dabble in the arcane, and fling data through the black velvet of space! If one were to judge the future by recent headlines, one might be forgiven for assuming we’ve stumbled upon the Golden Age of Progress armed with a tea cosy, a toolkit, and an indomitable spirit! First to the laboratory of the marvellously mad and magnificently minded—Marathon Fusion. These splendid tinkerers of the atomic kind are boldly claiming to have cracked the riddle of nuclear fusion. Not fission, dear reader, with all…
