A team of scientists has created a real-life miniature "tractor beam" - as featured in the Star Trek series - in a development which may lead to more efficient medical testing. The microscopic ...

In the latest case of science fiction turning to science fact, researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in the UK have invented the world’s first sonic tractor beam. A perennial ...

A new invention can pick up objects using a sonic tractor beam A Star Trek inspired ‘tractor beam’ which can levitate and move objects using sound waves has been invented by scientists.

A real-life miniature version of the "tractor beam" featured in the Star Trek series has been created by a team of scientists which could be used in medical testing. Although light manipulation ...

Article continues below The researchers have created the simplified tractor beam that really pulls objects towards it - just like in the beloved Star Trek TV series and films. But instead of ...

A tractor beam, reminiscent of the one used in sci-fi classic Star Trek, has been developed that uses sound to capture and manoeuvre objects in mid-air. The technology focuses waves of high ...

The tractor beam was able to move a hollow triangular object forward 1cm This was done with a device that exerted pressure using sound waves Device could have applications in treating cancer and ...

It doesn’t allow you to teleport, and it certainly isn’t the USS Enterprise - but one of the outlandish gadgets pioneered in Star Trek has now become a reality. The tractor beam was an invisible beam ...

But fans of the television series Star Trek will recall a different sort of wave pattern: the tractor beam. Tractor beam technology, if it were to exist, would be based on waves that go in the ...

The scientists behind the research said the tractor beam actually pulls the particles using a similar method to drill bits pulling sawdust. It's a far cry from Star Trek, but at least the ...

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Washington - It's the equivalent of the fictional tractor beam depicted in "Star Trek" moving things around in space without touching them - only at the microscopic level. Scientists at the University ...