supercomputers fire lasers to shoot gamma ray beam /

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Ever play with a magnifying lens as a kid? Imagine a lens as astronomical as the Earth. Now focus sunlight down to a pencil tip. That still wouldn't be generous enough for what some Texas scientists have in intellect. They want to make light even 500 times more intense. And they say it could open the door to the most powerful radiation in the universe: gamma rays.

Source: phys.org

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