Science Fiction has always been a fertile breeding ground for real scientific innovation, but I doubt anyone thought that the Transporter on Star Trek would ever be more than just a fantasy. It would seem however, that not only is matter teleportation possible… it has already been done!

Fox News reports that quantum information has been teleported between two separate atoms a meter a part. Yeah I have no idea what quantum information is either, but dammit, it sounds cool!
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