not everything is awful!

I heard this on the radio late last night, and could only find it on ABC Australia's website, referring to the BBC news release I had heard on the radio... very mysterious and awesome (not awful). Apparently researchers in Maryland and I forget where else have passed information across an empty one-meter space between two atoms- I suspect it was some kind of basic binary code because they suggest that it's the basis of quantum computing, and in quantum mechanics, particles affect each other instantly across immense distances... which I had heard but never thought of it as something we could apply so directly. It's all the more intriguing because of it's lack of back-up...