A research team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany recently made a breakthrough when they teleported quantum information between distant origins. Like binary code, quantum information encodes information, but it instead uses the polarization, or the angle, of light particles called photons. The quantum internet is a currently-theoretical network of interconnected quantum computers, which will use quantum objects to relay information to each other. In reality, you won’t be reading this story via the quantum internet in a decade or so—instead, quantum internet will exist alongside our current internet to solve specific problems, rather than creating a new system altogether. Crucially, a quantum object cannot be observed without leaving traces, so any attempt to intercept quantum information would be easily detectable.