Teleportation Gets a Boost

saavyone writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that while teleportation may not quite be a reality yet a team of Danish scientists have raised the bar on this line of research. From the article: "The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further. 'Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter,' Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained. 'Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement,' he added."

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Scientific news reporting: a rough guide

[CaptainCheese]

Here's a pretty simple way to figure out if something is or is not "good" science.

It's in the form of two examples:

1 - research is published in a recognised, peer-reviewed journal such as Nature, Science, etc. - probably well presented, may be reproducable, generally considered the correct way to present the findings.

2 - research is announced in the normal press first, for example on Yahoo!News via the Reuters news feed - "scientists" are either idiots, over-excitable, crave attention, being mis-represented, or a combination of the four. Generally considered an amazingly stupid way to present the findings.

I'll leave it to yourselves to decide which category this one fits into.