A new set of laser tweezers offers scientists unprecedented control over objects just tens of billionths of a meter in size. The device could allow biologists to probe individual viruses and proteins ...

Little is known about how malaria invades one red blood cell after another because it happens so quickly. In a new study, researchers used laser optical tweezers to study interactions between the ...

For the first time, researchers have played matchmaker between two specific atoms, joining them together to form a molecule. Typically, chemists make molecules by mixing up many constituent atoms, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Piero Bianco produces movies. Not films that chronicle the human condition, a la Hollywood. His subject is human biology at its most basic -- the translocation and unwinding of DNA by ...

Researchers have devised optical tweezers made up of laser beams that could be used to manipulate and move tiny atoms to align them to form single molecules. This is a breakthrough and has been done ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical tweezers have been a cornerstone technology for manipulating microscopic objects in various fields, including biotechnology and materials science. However, they have ...

Scientists and hackers continue to show that Microsoft's Kinect platform is a boundless source of both creative and useful applications. The latest, a project called HoloHands, seems like something ...

Researchers have been investigating how the movement of liquids inside of cells can affect the processes that are occurring within. Now, scientists have developed a way to manipulate spherical ...

A team of physicists in the US has reported that an atomic clock based on laser tweezers offers some “unique possibilities” for a future generation of super-precise timepieces. Demonstrated at JILA ...

New "squishy" lasers could help solve the mystery of the biological forces that control the development of embryos and cancerous tumors. Quantum information systems offer faster, more powerful ...

Lasers can be great for pointing at things or shooting down stray drones, but they have plenty of uses that aren't so stereotypically sci-fi. One of the stranger ones is to move tiny objects around.