Quantum teleportation has moved from science fiction into laboratory reality, but not in the way popular culture imagines. Instead of beaming people or objects across space, physicists are learning ...

Teleportation sounds clean until the machinery gets involved. A person steps into a chamber, presses a button, and appears somewhere else. In fiction, the scene plays like fast travel. No airport, no ...

The vacuum of space is a chaotic sea of quantum fluctuations. Some have said that this vacuum energy can be harvested to build our future starship engines. It can't. But it is technically possible to ...

We may never beam ourselves off the planet. But quantum teleportation is poised to bring about a new era of computing—and revolutionize our understanding of the subatomic world. This composite photo ...