Real life Star Trek tractor beam developed - but it won't be dragging space ships any time soon

Real life Star Trek tractor beam developed - but it won't be dragging space ships any time soon | Mail Online: "Star Date 24102012: We have detected evidence of a working tractor beam.



Two physicists working at New York university have developed a technique for using beams of light to draw a particle toward a source and claim to have demonstrated it experimentally.

Professor David Grier and David Ruffner, a graduate student, working at the Department of Physics and Centre for Soft Matter Research say they have realised the Star Trek-style technology - only on a miniscule scale."