A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has demonstrated the use of laser beams to lift and steer tiny engineered ...

Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in its path, and you’d have a system much like the one described in the 4 May issue of the ...

Citizen science project uses Euclid telescope data to find gravitational lenses. Public helps identify light-bending galaxies ...

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Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly small "dark object" lurking within a distant ring of warped light. The record-breaking find could help shed light on the mysterious identity of dark matter, ...

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Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black. Finding such an unmasked form of what ...

Scientists develop concept for feedback-controlled optical tweezers.These tweezers made of highly focused laser light can grab cell clusters in a controlled manner and rotate them in any direction.

Researchers demonstrated a new type of optical manipulation: using laser light to pull a macroscopic object. The technology has potential for applications in the continued explorations of Mars.