Joel Achenbach writes about science and politics for The Washington Post's National desk. He has been a staff writer for The Post since 1990. He started the newsroom’s first online column, Rough ...

centers in diamonds—atomic-scale defects often used in quantum sensing—when he noticed unusual patterns in the data. The periodic signals looked like an experimental artifact, but persisted ...

A new high-tech atomic clock has been developed by scientists at the top-secret Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). It is expected to be a leap forward for intelligence, surveillance ...

Troops on military operations will soon be able to use a British-made atomic clock built with quantum technology instead of GPS for the first time. The quantum clock, which in the next five years ...

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