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Not just sci-fi, long-range tractor beam now a reality

Canberra - Two Australian laser physicists have developed the world's first first long-distance optical tractor beam, capable of not only attracting objects, but repelling them as well.

Scientists develop Star Trek style tractor beam

Saint Andrews - Taking a page out of Gene Roddenberry's popular "Star Trek" series, researchers have announced the development of a "tractor beam".
 

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USS Defiant tractors Vorcha class ship. Image provided by Alpha Memory under fair use guidelines.
USS Defiant tractors Vorcha class ship. Image provided by Alpha Memory under "fair use" guidelines.
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Researchers with the Institute of Scientific Instruments and University of St. Andrews develop a tra...
Researchers with the Institute of Scientific Instruments and University of St. Andrews develop a tractor beam.
University of St. Andrews
A tractor beam on the USS Enterprise
A tractor beam on the USS Enterprise
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