Tractor Beams Come To Life

Wed Sep 8 21:26:00 2010 from rss.slashdot.org

Jamie is helping bring our childhood fantasies/nightmares to life with a link that says "Andrei Rhode, a researcher involved with the project, said that existing optical tweezers are able to move particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. Their new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more." [Read More..]