One of the TV success stories of the 1990s has been The X Files, in which two FBI special agents - one of whom has a physics degree - try to solve paranormal mysteries. Now real physicists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California are going to help the FBI to fight terrorism. Under an agreement announced by the Department of Energy (DOE) last month, Livermore's forensic science centre will provide the FBI with technological support. It will be the first in a network of laboratories to do so.
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