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Light's Secret Twin Teleported 270 Meters Through the Air!

Photo: kaveh feiz / Unsplash
Scientists just teleported a tiny particle of light called a photon across a football field-sized distance without it actually traveling through the space between! They did this using something called quantum dots [super-tiny bits of material that work like boxes for light], and it proves that information can be sent in completely new ways. This could one day mean messages so secret that nobody could ever hack them!
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