Shades of Star Trek.

• Position: Science - Brief Article

Scientists have teleported individual atoms for the first time. In physics, "teleportation" means creating a replica of an object at some distance from the original. Teleporting always destroys the original--not unlike the transporters in Star Trek that disposed of the old Captain Kirk as a "copy" was beamed aboard the Enterprise. This technology, which was developed at the National Institute of Standards & Technology in Boulder, Colo., and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, could...