![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920102321im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field UCR Physicist Demonstrates How Light Can be Used to Remotely Operate Micromachines
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May 31, 2007
![News thumbnail](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920102321im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/umar_mohideen_l.jpg) | A research team led by physicist Umar Mohideen at the University of California, Riverside has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force--the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates--can be changed using a beam of light, making the remote operation of micromachines a possibility. Full story |
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