If you are from a generation that grew up watching Star Trek , then you will probably read this with the same excitement that I did. The BBC reports that Scientists in the US and Austria – working independently – have managed to teleport atoms.

Princeton defines teleportation as

a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another

If you remember your Star Trek, this is the bit when the crew members can be transported – to and from their transporter room -anywhere.

While scientists may be quite a way away from transporting human beings – materializing and dematerializing – and other large objects – they have made the begining.

In other merging of science fiction and science, a scientist in Japan has invented invisibility cloak and is working on x-ray vision – the ability to see through walls. What ever next? warp speed will be cool…:)