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Nature 416, 775 (25 April 2002) | doi:10.1038/416775b

Laser gears up for star role

Natasha McDowell

Astrophysicists will soon be able to deploy a range of lab experiments to test the predictions of some of their theories.The upgraded Vulcan laser, which was inaugurated this month at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, will offer researchers the most intense laser pulses in the world.