A neat study shows that a sheet of laser light can be used to reflect light-absorbing liquid droplets and manipulate their trajectories. This observation may open up new ways of controlling and studying aerosols.
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McGloin, D. An optical trampoline. Nature 492, 51–52 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/492051a
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