Date: 97-12-13

New York- Scientists have pulled off a startling trick that looks like the "Beam-me-up-Scotty" technology of science fiction. In an Austrian laboratory, scientists destroyed bits of light in one place and made perfect replicas appear about three feet away. They did that by transferring information about a crucial physical characteristic of the original light bits, called photons. The information was picked up by other photons, which took on that characteristic and so became replicas of the original.