> They repeated the process many times, making many measurements at each step in a way that allowed them to reconstruct the quantum properties of the three atoms throughout the procedure. In the end, they calculated that the energy of the Bob carbon atom had decreased on average, and thus that energy had been extracted and released into the environment. This happened despite the fact that the Bob atom always started out in its ground state. From start to finish, the protocol took no more than 37 milliseconds. But for energy to have traveled from one side of the molecule to the other, it normally would have taken more than 20 times longer — approaching a full second. The energy spent by Alice allowed Bob to unlock otherwise inaccessible energy. OP did read, you clearly didn't. The headline is buzzy but accurate. I simply used their headline. Energy was transferred from one quantum state to another through entanglement. And it did so at speeds exceeding expectations. The result is a loss of energy at one atom and the gain of energy of another through entanglement. That's pretty amazing if real. If real, it also implies wireless energy transfer is ultimately possible.