Even when multiple mechanics are mixed into puzzles like jump pads, tractor beams, light bridges and gels, I never felt getting stuck was due to unreasonable or poor design, only my ability to ...

There are also now tractor beams and holographic bridges that work in the same way, extending your reach through portals in an exponentially more tactile fashion.

Light bridges, tractor beams, turrets, bombs, gels—nothing is off-limits as Wheatley tries and fails to smash Chell between spiked steel plates he's way too proud of.

It's been just under four years since we last took on GLaDOS's brain-twisting challenges but now she's back with more in Portal 2 ...

A tractor beam of focused sound waves has pulled on an object as large as a Toblerone chocolate bar.

The tractor beam, the famous grabbing tool of choice by any UFO or spaceship, may be one step closer to reality after a breakthrough in an unexpected field.

Part of I-95 northbound in Delaware was blocked Thursday after a crash involving two tractor-trailers.

The wavelike properties of quantum matter could lead to a scaled-down version of Star Trek technology. A new kind of tractor beam could use a beam of particles to reel in atoms or molecules ...

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem.

Physicists at New York University have demonstrated a micro-tractor beam capable of pushing and pulling molecules. The system by David B. Ruffner and David G. Grier consists of a set of ...