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Teleportation via the internet sounds like science fiction. Still, researchers have now demonstrated quantum teleportation ...

Every task we perform on a computer—whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article—requires different ...

Weather forecasting has long been a crucial tool for modern society, shaping agriculture, energy management, climate science, ...

NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation lifted off at 5:19 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7. The ...

As NASA’s Psyche spacecraft travels towards its asteroid target, 16 Psyche, to examine this unique, all-metal world with its suite of scientific instruments, the spacecraft also carries a new laser ...

It’s been quite a year for laser communications in space. In October and November, NASA launched two pioneering demonstrations to test high-bandwidth optical communication links, and these tech demos ...

The Russian spacecraft Foton-M2 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 12.00 UTC. The spacecraft carries a communication system, called Telescience Support Unit, which has ...

Communications using a light beam isn’t a new idea, even outside of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars” and other similar tales of fantasy. Scientist and science fiction writer Arthur Clarke forecasted ...

Figure 1: Schematic of a quantum key distribution system. The transmitter (Alice) and receiver (Bob) generate composable keys by transmitting quantum states over an insecure quantum channel, ...