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If the Space Race characterized the twentieth century, it's possible the Teleportation Race may characterize the twenty-first. Scientists all over the world are trying to perfect teleportation techniques, for a wide variety of applications including communications technology. (Sorry, this isn't the kind of teleportation that involves sending you through a wormhole to the other side of the galaxy.) And now, a group of researchers led by Juan Yin at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai have published a paper on ArXiv describing how they teleported entangled photons over a distance of 97 kilometres across a lake in China.