Imagine obtaining the powers of Hiro Nakamura from the popular TV show Heroes or the countless other fictional characters who were able to travel through space and time instantaneously. The Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Michigan has succeeded in teleporting a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a substantial distance. Atom-to-atom teleported information can be recovered with perfect accuracy about 90 percent of the time and that figure can be improved. 90 percent sounds good but trust me you don't want to sit in one of these yet and end up with no legs when you reach the other end of your journey.

Teleportation works because of a remarkable quantum phenomenon, called entanglement, which only occurs on the atomic and subatomic scale. Let's hope this technology is perfected up to a 100% and then travel the globe in an instant.

Via [Cnet]