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Nano shuttles suggest lifting things may become thing of the past (Update)

A key technological breakthrough led by the University of Edinburgh suggests that a futuristic world where people can move objects about ‘remotely` with laser pointers could be closer than we think. Chemists working on the nanoscale have managed to move a tiny droplet of liquid across a surface - and even up a slope - by transporting it along a layer of light-sensitive molecules.