A Chinese team of researchers have teleported a qubit (a standard unit of data in quantum computing) over 60 miles. In the Daily Mail, Mark Prigg reports that a group of European and Canadian researchers say they’ve beaten this coup by teleporting information from one of the Canary Islands to another, almost 90 miles apart.

Eventually, scientists how to use this technique for quantum teleportation of people.

This teleportation happens instantly, once the two particles become entangled. This would mean we could eventually move people from one planet–or solar system–to another, instantaneously.
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The Ministry of Defense (MOD–the UK equivalent of the Pentagon in the US) will no longer investigate UFO sightings after ruling there is "no evidence" they pose a threat, despite the fact that a senior aviation official has admitted that the country is visited by one unidentified flying object a month.

Pilots spot UFOs all the time. Richard Deakin, the head of UK Air Traffic Control, says that over 6,000 flights move through their airspace every day, and that air traffic controllers see about one UFO every month.
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NASA doesn’t just search for life on other planets, its satellites also search the Earth for evidence of melting glaciers. Their "IceSat," which uses lasers to measure the thickness of ice, has discovered that Arctic ice is vanishing 50% faster than expected–at a rate of almost 500 cubic miles per year, since 2004.The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet.

On BBC News, Roger Harrabin quotes climate researcher Seymour Laxon as saying, "We have to be cautious until our data has been properly analyzed as part of a climate model, but this does suggest that the Arctic might be ice-free in summer for a day at least by the end of the decade.
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