Tractor beams are one of the most iconic pieces of science-fiction technology, most likely popularized through movies and TV shows such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and anything to do with advanced alien ...

The nefarious tractor beam, otherwise known as the tool singlehandedly responsible for all alien abductions resulting in a special kind of probing, is soon to become a reality. An ensemble of ...

In science fiction works, we often see depictions of shooting down incoming meteorites with beams emitted from the Earth, or moving objects in space with tractor beams that attract distant objects.

A breakthrough technology from scientists at MIT has made it possible to manipulate particles in what has been referred to as reminiscent of the tractor beam in Star Wars and Star Trek. The microchip ...

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 ...

For SF works like "Star Wars", as a technique to attract spaceships and luggageTractor beam"Will appear. In reality, we succeeded in making a tractor beam that floats objects by floating ultrasonic ...