8, 1966. CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images May 30, 2014— -- A major breakthrough in teleportation was announced this week, but don't expect Mr. Spock to appear in a glittering beam with sound ...

Quantum teleportation, once a staple of sci-fi lore, is now edging closer to scientific fact. What seemed impossible a decade ago is now happening in laboratories, thanks to rapid advances in ...

OK, I know. We don’t have practical teleportation. But that hasn’t stopped generations of science fiction authors and movie makers from building stories around it. If you ask most ordinary ...

Quantum teleportation, once confined to the pages of science fiction, is steadily becoming a tangible scientific achievement.

Here’s how it works. Think Star Trek: You are here. You want to go there. It's just a matter of teleportation. Thanks to lab experiments, there is growth in the number of "beam me up" believers ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Admit it -- at one point or another we've all dreamed of being able to teleport. How much easier and less stressful life would be if, at the flick of a switch, we could ...

But when it comes to transportation nirvana, nothing beats teleportation—vehicle-free, instantaneous travel. If beam-me-up-Scotty technology has gotten less attention than other transportation ...

(More physics: "The Physics Behind Waterslides.") Quantum teleportation relies on something called an entangled state. An entangled state, in the words of Wallraff, is a "state of two quantum bits ...

In today's issue of Nature, a team at Oxford University describes using quantum teleportation to link two pieces of quantum hardware that were located about 2 meters apart, meaning they could ...