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Tractor beams could be real possibility according to scientists

Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 11:33am

The Millennium Falcon was pulled into the Death Star, leading to odd YouTube videos and a generation wondering if any of this could ever actually happen. Well, scientists have followed through on testing the Bessel beam and now say a tractor beam is a very real possibility for the future.

Chinese researchers build a working, nanoscopic tractor beam

Kevin Hall

Monday, February 28, 2011 - 11:09am

Tractor beams are one of those sci-fi staples that, when you get right down to it, are actually pretty hard to wrap your head around: it's a force that projects outward, and yet it pulls an object inward. Crazy as it is, Chinese researchers may have just figured out how to do just that.

Holy moly: tractor beams are now a real, existing thing

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 9:24am

Tractor beams, the sort of thing that large spaceships use to pull in smaller spaceships in sci-fi movies, are no longer in the realm of fantasy. Yes, researchers at the Australian National University have created a device that can move small particles multiple feet using only light. Wow.

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