A laboratory run by University of Chicago professor David Awschalom at the school's William Eckhardt Research Center is testing technology in the hopes of developing a communications network that uses quantum physics. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
CHICAGO: Researchers from the University of Illinois are joining Chicago-area scientists in creating a network that could pave the way for communication that can't be hacked.
The effort is part of a push from national labs and universities in the state to establish Chicago as a leader in an emerging field of physics and engineering called quantum technology.
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