Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...
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World-first light propulsion 'metajets' could enable 20-year mission to Alpha Centauri
Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions ...
Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...
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Researchers demonstrated a new type of optical manipulation: using laser light to pull a macroscopic object. The technology has potential for applications in the continued explorations of Mars.
(Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated before, this is one of the first ...
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