BEAM ME IN A new tractor-beam design tilts the angle of light within a laser beam to switch from pushing (left) to pulling (right) an object. Gray arrows show the angle of this tilt. Sang-Hyuk Lee, Yohai Roichman and David G. Grier, “Optical solenoid beams,” Opt.
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