Scientists may have discovered how to create a real-life tractor beam using electromagnetic radiation that can draw particles toward it. The result is something very akin to the tractor beam seen in ...

This animation shows how a hypothetical future mission might eventually employ ‘tractor beam’ technology. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Conceptual Image Lab) Tractor beams — the ability ...

DUNE will need lots of neutrinos—and to make them, scientists and engineers will use extreme versions of some common sounding ingredients: magnets and pencil lead. What do you need to make the most ...

In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for ...