Sentences with phrase «tractor beam»

The team have shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams.

The males drawn in on tractor beams, flying straight past the females.

So, the question really is — what would you do with your own tractor beam?

Once the stuff of science fiction, laboratory tractor beams are grabbing onto small objects in the lab.

One of the first things you notice about the film is that it's oddly bright — even dark shots catch the actors in tractor beams of light, while the majority of the action takes place in the daytime (here we have a Dracula who seems to be immune to sunlight)-- and unapologetically sharp.

«Sonic tractor beam moves stuff with sound.»

University of Bristol research assistant Asier Marzo, the lead author of an article on the project recently published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, says that the acoustic tractor beam relies on the fact that sound is a mechanical wave that carries momentum.

Scientists have previously created tractor beams using light or sound waves, which can pull small particles a few millimeters or centimeters (SN: 11/15/14, p. 16).

While traversing the world you'll be collecting a total of nine unique tools ranging from the typical blaster to fight off shadow enemies, a claw to collect objects, remote - controlled rockets, ranging all the way to the classic UFO tractor beam in order to survive, collect relics, and progress.

Use a unique UFO tractor beam to herd and protect cute, cuddly animals back to the mothership through more than 50 sandbox puzzles rife with dangers.

Such episodes don't occur often, because whenever they do, I'm instantly reminded of how bad the stuff actually tastes and am able to stave off the nostalgia - fueled McDonald's tractor beam for at least a year or so.

NASA is trying to develop tractor beams that could move physical objects, creating an attractive force that would trump gravity.

Besides seriously impressing dinner guests, these DIY tractor beams have many potential uses and may even become a new tool for studying low - gravity effects on biological samples.

Matter wave tractor beams could be made with beams of electrons, Novitsky says.

The researchers didn't actually reel in an object, but they demonstrated that an ultrasound tractor beam could do the job.

Waves from a new tractor beam, illustrated at right, bounce off the sides of an object and rebound upward.

Arnold and the MP3L team were able to extract the electrostatic force between the orbiting nanoparticle and the surface of the glass bead through experiments based on the observation that the nano - orbital phenomenon requires a near balance between the electrostatic force and the known optical tractor beam force, just as a weighing scale balances the force of a spring against your body's weight.

«It was like sci - fi really happening inside my own lab,» said physicist Tomas Čižmár, describing the first tractor beam to pull an object with light, Star Wars - style.

«In this paper, we made a simple, static tractor beam that only requires a static piece of matter.»

It's not nearly powerful enough to pull in the Millennium Falcon, but four groups of physicists have independently come up with the same basic idea for a real - life tractor beam.

This image shows levitating a 3 cm diameter expanded polysterine sphere with a DIY portable tractor beam.

This article has been updated to clarify who pioneered the laser thruster technology, and to add further information about polymer - based tractor beam motors.

Watch Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel about desire and class structures, and you'll feel how his refined, muted Newland Archer is inextricably pulled toward the melancholy tractor beam that is Michelle Pfeiffer's Ellen Olenska.

At one point he looked at me and I almost peed my pants — he is an actual tractor beam of hotness.

Elements of many other films abound, some of them perhaps coincidental rather than conscious, among them Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, which had an opening sequence similar to the effects as seen in V'ger's tractor beam ride, with Jerry Goldsmith's (Alien, Coma) score emulating Bernard Herrman's almost note for note.

Missiles, thrusters for flight and a suit - integrated tractor beam complement this powerhouse.

The variable - geometry turbo quickly spools, muscles tighten in the drivetrain and the Diesel Cayenne surges ahead as if it was pulled by some giant unseen tractor beam.

It's imperative you stay away from the fresh snow at the edges of the track, however, otherwise it'll seem as if the icy walls have locked tractor beams onto the red paintwork and you'll be dragged inexorably into their cold embrace.

Fully equipped with LeGrange targeting computers, heavy ion cannons, Phylon Q7 tractor beam projectors, leather bucket seats, and a 15 disc cd changer.

Flying freely through the odd and fantastic surroundings, a powerful tractor beam lets you pick up objects and interact with the world.

«How to 3 - D print your own sonic tractor beam.»

Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single - sided acoustic tractor beam — that is, the first realization of trapping and pulling an object using sound waves from only one direction.

Herd cute, cuddly animals through over 50 sandbox puzzles with the help of your UFO tractor beam!

The bad news is, no tractor beams.

This wave nature of matter could be used to create a tractor beam that could reel in atoms or molecules, a new study proposes.

A new kind of tractor beam could use a beam of particles to reel in atoms or molecules, physicists propose in the May 5 Physical Review Letters.

Using a tractor beam to haul a damaged spaceship may look simple on Star Trek, but nature makes it very difficult to pull objects from a distance.

Scientists might use these tractor beams to separate mixtures of atoms or ions, for example, reeling in one type but not another.

Tractor beams have hit the big time.

If perfected, this «sonic tractor beam» could find uses ranging from treating kidney stones to creating artificial gravity on the International Space Station.

Further discoveries and patents led to WGM biosensors capable of gauging the mass of viruses, proteins and other nanoparticles by sending them into spacecraft - like orbit around the micro-bead, thanks to a photonic «tractor beam» caused by the resonating light.

Ultrasonic waves can penetrate the body relatively gently, he notes, so the sonic tractor beam might be used to remove kidney stones and clots, deliver drug - laden capsules to various parts of the body, or control microsurgical instruments.

Moving the nanoparticles in the study required a couple of watts of optical power — the equivalent of thousands of heat - producing laser pointers — which means a tractor beam big enough to lasso a spaceship is still (light) years away.

Millimeter - sized plastic beads hover, spin, move around and get reeled in as if pulled by a tractor beam when placed in range of an ultrasound - blasting platform.

A platform tiled with ultrasound - emitting speakers can get small objects to hover, spin, move around and get reeled in as if pulled by a tractor beam (shown).

When you move the tractor beam, the particle moves, but otherwise the trap is static.