This is not your Sci-Fi Teleportation but it's Magical Scientists first proved that teleportation was possible in 1993. A team from IBM wrote a paper explaining how they could teleport a quantum state (not a physical object). Five years later, researchers from California and the U.K. successfully teleported a photon—a tiny particle of light—through a special cable. Teleportation, like flying cars and time travel, sounds like science fiction, but scientists believe that improvements in quantum computing could make it real. So far, most teleportation experiments have used photons. But in 2020, scientists found that teleporting electrons might also be possible. Electrons could be better for teleportation because they can hold their quantum states longer. Quantum computing is based on the weird science of quantum entanglement, which has nothing to do with our everyday experience of Newtonian mechanics, like masses, forces, and their related effects. Instead of physically sending qubits from one computer to another, they used quantum teleportation to transfer quantum information instantly. This is possible due to a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, in which two particles (qubits) are mysteriously linked, no matter how far apart they are. Scientists entangle two qubits (tiny quantum particles). Entangled qubits are like a magical pair—if you change one, the other instantly changes, no matter how far apart they are. This means they stay connected, even if one is on Earth and the other is on the Moon. They used light (photons) to transfer quantum information between computers. This act acts like a bridge, allowing separate quantum processors to "talk" to each other. The team didn’t just teleport individual qubits; they teleported logical gates (the basic operations of a quantum computer). This allowed the separate quantum computers to process data together as if they were part of the same system. Quantum entanglement: Where two particles, such as a pair of photons, remain correlated even when separated by vast distances. This allows them to share information without having to travel physically. Quantum teleportation: The transfer of quantum information over long distances almost instantly, using entanglement.