For centuries, science fiction has imagined teleportation—instantaneous travel from one place to another. While teleporting people still belongs to the realm of fantasy, recent breakthroughs in quantum mechanics suggest that we may be one step closer to making teleportation a reality. Since the 1990s, scientists have successfully teleported photons, and now, research from Purdue University and the University of Rochester, funded by the National Science Foundation, suggests that electrons may ...