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Teleporting people through space, as is done in Star Trek, is impossible by the laws of physics. Teleporting information is another matter, however, thanks to the extraordinary world of quantum mechanics. Researchers at TU Delft's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have succeeded in deterministically transferring [phys.org] the information contained in a quantum bit — the quantum analogue of a classical bit — to a different quantum bit 3 metres away, without the information having traveled through the intervening space: The results were published online [sciencemag.org] in Science, on Thursday 29 May 2014.
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