High-Energy Laser

Lasers can produce the kinds of extreme temperatures, pressures and magnetic fields only found inside stars. This week, Dr Ceri Brenner shows us the high-energy laser she uses for her research, based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford.

29 August 2013

4 minutes

This clip is from

BBC Inside Science—Research bias; Sniffer dogs; Lasers; Roadkill

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