Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation.
This is like me picking up a trowel and claiming that I've come a bit closer to the feat of moving the moon from one orbit to another.
Words cannot express the loathing I have for the term quantum teleportation. Those of us who have read the Star Trek Technical Manual [1] get the joke, sort of, but for everyone who doesn't already understand the physics the metaphor is broken, and now we appear to be stuck with it. It's a shameless piece of linkbait that also seems designed to confuse the issue: It confuses the communication of quantum states with the movement of objects, and it subtly encourages us to think of this phenomenon as a weird, magical, "spooky action at a distance". ("Action at a distance" is the very definition of "teleportation".) That's a concept that we need to get out of physics education. [2]
One of the fun bits of Feynman's QED lectures is his grumbling about names like quark, which were relatively new when he gave the lectures. He doesn't seem to have been a fan of the Gell-Mann school of name selection. (Or perhaps he just enjoyed teasing his colleagues?) But quark turns out not to be so bad: at least it's an otherwise meaningless word (flavor and color are only a little bit worse). But imagine if physicists had chosen to call quarks "cheerios". Every news article on particle physics would be accompanied by a photo of some breakfast cereal, and people would keep asking about the milk.
---
[1] This article really is about a "Heisenberg compensator". That much is true.
[2] The phrase "spooky action at a distance" is a holdover from Einstein, who coined it in order to ridicule the concept of quantum entanglement. Unfortunately, Einstein was wrong: entanglement is real. But he was also really eloquent, so his argument lives on despite being wrong.