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Published online 29 September 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040927-8
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An atom-smasher on your desk?
Laser pulses could shrink particle accelerators to just metres across.
The image of particle-physics machines tends to be of huge beasts snaking through kilometres of countryside and costing billions of dollars. But that is about to change.
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