Researchers at TMOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have taken an important first step in the development of metasurface-enabled tractor beams—rays of light that ...

The quest for a real life tractor beam continues, with a 2-micrometer-thick silicon light bender. The silicon metasurface changes a solid beam into a triple spiral one that can pick up particles.

What advancements can be made to improve the efficiency and accuracy of studying worldwide diseases? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of ...

Human technology is crossing another threshold. Tractor beams have been common in science fiction for decades. Now a team of researchers is working on a real-life tractor beam that could help us with ...

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 ...

Using laser beams to pull an object towards the source of the beam is perhaps best known as a fictional technology on Star Trek. As is the case with many modern-day technologies, though, what once was ...