Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A self-driving car has a hard time recognizing the difference between a toddler and a brown bag that suddenly appears into view because of limitations in how it senses objects ...

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered and created a working prototype of two objects that uses only Light to float and hover in their place. The technology has features that ...

Researchers demonstrated a new type of optical manipulation: using laser light to pull a macroscopic object. The technology has potential for applications in the continued explorations of Mars.

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Scientists develop concept for feedback-controlled optical tweezers.These tweezers made of highly focused laser light can grab cell clusters in a controlled manner and rotate them in any direction.

DURHAM, N.C. — Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black. Finding such an unmasked form of what ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated before, this is one of the first ...