WATERLOO — Up among the clouds in the Canary Islands, researchers have pulled off a teleportation experiment that opens the door to a satellite network for powerful quantum computers that could change our world as we know it.
In something that sounds straight out of a science fiction movie, the scientists worked only at night, battling dust storms and shooting green beams of light from one mountain top to another — successfully teleporting quantum information a record 143 kilometres.
And they did it with the help of three researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing and their highly specialized equipment and computer algorithms.
Vadim Makarov, Thomas Jennewein and Elena Anisimova teamed up with a group from Vienna’s Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information to pull off the groundbreaking experiment that was years in the making.
The group’s research, published this week in the journal Nature, is a major step in the field of quantum physics, which studies the strange behavior of nature at the molecular level.
While SpaceX works on giant reusable rockets to reach Mars, other companies are working on technologies to keep colonists alive on the red planet. Relativity Space has made the world's largest metal 3D printer, called Stargate, to print rockets, tools, and other useful objects off-Earth.
When humans take the drug MDMA, versions of which are known as molly or ecstasy, they commonly feel very happy, extraverted, and particularly interested in physical touch. A group of scientists recently wondered whether this drug might have a similar effect on other species—specifically, octopuses, which are seemingly as different from humans as an animal can be. The results of their experiment, in which seven octopuses took MDMA, were “unbelievable.”
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