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.

Now, as Star Trek celebrates a half-century of boldly going places, David Grier's lab at New York University is working with NASA to develop a working tractor beam that could one day be used in space.

Star Trek has predicted future technology yet again. Engineers at England’s University of Bristol claim that they have tested the world’s most powerful acoustic tractor beam and that it can ...

A perennial favourite in old-school sci-fi like Star Trek, the tractor beam in science fiction is essentially an invisible ray that’s used to grab and tow items in outer space.

Star Trek-style tractor beam becomes a reality: Device can lift and move small objects using sound 'holograms' Array of loudspeakers produce an acoustic 'hologram' to hold an object; ...

Forty-four years after "Star Trek" made its debut, it looks as if we're a step closer to seeing another type of Trek tech come to life: the tractor beam. But don't expect to capture a Romulan ...

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In the sci-fi classic Star Trek, the starship Enterprise's tractor beam was used to tow other spacecraft to safety - or, in some cases, it was used as a weapon to control enemy ships.

Scientists from Scotland and the Czech Republic have together created a miniature real-life “tractor beam” – a beam of energy that can attract one object to another from a distance – as was depicted ...

Researchers have developed a tractor beam that uses sound waves to hold an object in space. Practical uses for this device may include medical procedures.

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 ...

Australian researchers have developed a Star Trek-style tractor beam that uses laser to move objects - an achievement described as a 'holy grail' Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for ...