Gizmodo had this with the title of "Scientists discover a way to make real life lightsabers" lol
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-created-a-new-form-of-matter-a...
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-created-a-new-form-of-matter-a...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925132323.ht...
It's however rather sad scientist has to make such statements to get attention. As this research actually has really awesome applications: "Particular applications of this technique include all-optical switching, deterministic photonic quantum logic and the generation of strongly correlated states of light9."
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...