Come on, admit it. You’ve always wanted to have Scotty beam you up to the USS Enterprise.

But it’s unlikely that you will be teleported anywhere in this lifetime… unless you’re a photon.

And that could mean more secure communications in the foreseeable future.

A group of physicists announced this week that they have successfully teleported a photon, which is a particle of light, over the span of just more than 3.5 miles in a straight length of fiber optic cable.

The effort, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sets a world record for distance in quantum teleportation.

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