Doctor Who visited Star Trek, and the crossover showed up in our reality as a macroscopic acoustic tractor beam. The newly-developed acoustic tractor beam can pull objects six orders of magnitude — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic impression of the Electrostatic Tractor during an Earth encounter. (CREDIT: Fabio Annecchini & Dario Izzo) A dead ...

It is a staple of science fiction, but researchers have revealed a real life tractor beam. The University of Adelaide says its tractor beam - or light-driven energy trap - works perfectly - with one ...

It may seem straight out of "Star Trek," but it's real: Scientists have created a sonic "tractor beam" that can pull, push and pirouette objects that levitate in thin air. The sonic tractor beam ...

Levitation is no longer just the realm of magicians, with engineers dabbling in ways to suspend objects in midair using magnets, heat flow or sound waves. Unfortunately, it usually only works with ...

Tractor beams evoke scenes from Star Trek and Star Wars, but scientists have swapped lasers for water to create a similar device. Australian physicists have developed technology that works in liquids ...

Tractor beams are a staple in science fiction. The hero inevitably gets stuck on the enemy’s beam, escapes a tractor beam, or uses a tractor beam to escape. And now science has caught up. The BBC ...