Miniature Star Trek style 'tractor beam' built

Sadly for sci-fi enthusiasts the technique, detailed in the Nature Photonics journal, has only been proven to work on a particle five microns wide, and can not be scaled up to suck in spaceships because too powerful a laser would be required. 

"If you imagine you would like to attract a football, the amount of energy it would transfer would be huge and it would immediately burn up the football. 

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9825165/Miniature-Star-Trek-style-tractor-beam-built.html