Tractor beams have hit the big time. A newly constructed device generates a beam of concentrated sound that, for the first time, exerts a continuous, perceptible tug on objects large enough to see.

It may seem straight out of "Star Trek," but it's real: Scientists have created a sonic "tractor beam" that can pull, push and pirouette objects that levitate in thin air. The sonic tractor beam ...

A new "tractor beam" can levitate large objects in midair, using only sound. So far, researchers have floated spheres as large as 0.6 inches (16 millimeters) in diameter and moved orbs as large as 0.8 ...

For those of us that have seen the original Star Wars, it’s hard to forget the famous scene where the crew aboard the Millennium Falcon comes out of a jump through hyperspace, arriving where Alderaan ...

It defies gravity because an invisible beam of sound pushes it upward, steering it through space. It is not quite the tractor beam of Star Trek lore—the system mainly pushes upward rather than reeling ...

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Scientists have built a novel sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves. High-amplitude sound waves are used to generate an acoustic hologram which can pick up and move small ...

Gene Roddenberry would be beaming with pride right now to see the scientific community hellbent on making his science fiction into science fact. Gene did actually get to see some of his ideas turn ...