Before getting too excited, this isn't exactly the Death Star hauling in the Millennium Falcon, however, two physicists at New York University...actually, we'll just let them explain it:

David Ruffner and David Grier of New York University instead projected two Bessel beams side by side and used a lens to angle them so that they overlapped, creating a pattern of alternating bright and dark regions along the length of the beam. Fine-tuning the beam causes photons in the bright regions, initially flowing past a chosen particle in the beam, to scatter backwards. When these photons hit the particle, they knock it to the next bright region. The particle is thus constantly pushed close to the beam's source.

Obviously this is all at a microscopic level, but it's still a tractor beam!

Pay a visit to the insanely cool FX studio behind The Walking Dead, Evil Dead 2, Inglourious Basterds, and a ton of other notable violent films from the last two decades.

Not Safe For Work -- language and bloody FX demonstrations.

The fifth (and final) season of Fringe premieres September 28th, and this new promo for the first episode should get you rightfully pumped up.

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A haunting and epic promo for "Asylum of the Daleks", the premiere episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who, airing in September.

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This line of sci-fi and horror-inspired popsicles comes from ice cream maker and clothing designer Stoyn. Some of the flavors -- apple carrot puree, tomato hot pepper -- sound a little unappetizing, but Mario's Tequila Sunrise is probably pretty good, and definitely not as creepy looking.

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It's been 13 years since the off-kilter British space comedy graced television screens -- at least with a live audience laugh track. Red Dwarf X is a six-episode run of new material, set to air on Dave TV in this fall. For stateside fans, that likely means tracking it down on the Internet.

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