“In Motion” Levitation Is Possible And No Longer Just a Myth — Eamon Kunze WT...
Levitation and the defiance of gravity is possible. If until now levitation was just a magic act or circus “reality” or, tractor beam technology existed just in sci-fi movies, recently, a team of...
View ArticleWorld’s first sonic tractor beam lifts objects using sound waves
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex, in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, have built the world’s first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves. Details...
View ArticleHolographic sonic tractor beam lifts and moves objects using soundwaves
More *!* — WOW — *!* How can anyone NOT love science?! Holograms (3-D light fields) can be projected from a 2-dimensional surface to control objects. (credit: Asier Marzo, Bruce Drinkwater and Sriram...
View ArticleNanotubes assemble! Rice introduces Teslaphoresis
Carbon nanotubes in a dish assemble themselves into a nanowire in seconds under the influence of a custom-built Tesla coil created by scientists at Rice University. But the scientists don’t limit...
View Article‘Tractor beams’ build atom-by-atom assembly in mid-air
Physicists have manipulated 50 individual atoms at once in a dramatic upscaling of a technique vital to quantum computing. Cathal O’Connell explains. Read more
View ArticleOptical forces used to make rewritable 3D holographic materials
(Phys.org)—Researchers have used the pressure of light—also called optical forces or sometimes “tractor beams”—to create a new type of rewritable, dynamic 3D holographic material. Unlike other 3D...
View ArticleThe world’s most powerful acoustic tractor beam could pave the way for...
Acoustic tractor beams use the power of sound to hold particles in mid-air, and unlike magnetic levitation, they can grab most solids or liquids. For the first time University of Bristol engineers...
View ArticleTractor Beam Can Levitate Humans With ‘Sound Tornadoes’
Acoustic researchers had been frustrated by the size limit for years, so it’s satisfying to find a way to overcome it.” Read more
View ArticleThis Breakthrough in Tractor Beam Tech Could Pave The Way to Levitating Humans
In a sci-fi feeling first, engineers at the University of Bristol used the world’s most powerful acoustic tractor beam to demonstrate that it’s possible to stably contain objects larger than the...
View ArticleTornadoes Of Sound Can Levitate Physical Objects
This tractor beam breakthrough means humans are one step closer to levitation. (via Seeker) Read more
View ArticleScientists Just Used a Tractor Beam to Levitate the Largest Object Yet
The world’s most powerful tractor beam just lifted a 2 centimeter ball, but could it make levitating humans a reality? One Shot Could Provide All the Vaccines You’ll Ever Need —...
View ArticlePhysicists Develop Reversible Laser Tractor Beam Functional Over Long Distances
Circa 2015 Spaceships in movies and TV shows routinely use tractor beams to tow other vessels or keep them in place. Physicists have been hard at work trying take this technology from science fiction...
View ArticleWe’re not saying Earth is doomed… but 139 minor planets were spotted at the...
A simple tractor beam can pull them away like a higgs boson tractor beam. Too bad they are likely uninhabitable. Read more
View ArticleLight-based ‘tractor beam’ assembles materials at the nanoscale
Modern construction is a precision endeavor. Builders must use components manufactured to meet specific standards — such as beams of a desired composition or rivets of a specific size. The building...
View ArticleEnhancement of the ‘tractor-beam’ pulling force on an optically bound structure
Circa 2017 Recently, increasing attention has been devoted to mastering a new technique of optical delivery of micro-objects tractor-beam’1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Such beams have uniform intensity...
View ArticleAcoustic Tractor Beam Can Grab Objects From Behind Obstacles
An acoustic tractor beam that can bend sound around an obstacle to levitate an object on the other side has been created by researchers in the UK. Dubbed SoundBender, the device combines an ultrasound...
View ArticleExotic Forces: Do Tractor Beams Break the Laws of Physics?
It depends. Warp drive. Site-to-site transporter technology. A vast network of interstellar wormholes that take us to bountiful alien worlds. Beyond a hefty holiday wish-list, the ideas presented to...
View ArticleNew Advanced Light Tractor Beam Moving Atoms
Researchers manage to build a light beam able to attract and repel particles about 100 times further than has been previously achieved. Read more
View ArticleReal-Life ‘Star Trek’ Tractor Beams Will Change How We Practice Medicine
Circa 2015 Star Trek’s ideal view of medicine is closer than we think. Read more
View ArticleResearchers create an optical tractor beam that pulls macroscopic objects
Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated before, this is one of the first times that laser...
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