Tag: atomic clocks
Aquark Tests Cold-Atom Clocks With Royal Navy Radars
Aquark Technologies and its partners conducted a successful trial with the UK Royal Navy in June 2026, where two networked...
DARPA Pays IonQ to Build 125 Optical Atomic Clocks
DARPA is paying IonQ $28 million to move its optical atomic clocks out of the prototype stage and into production,...
The Navy’s Quantum Lab Focuses on Sensing and Algorithms
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has spelled out what its year-old Quantum Science Institute works on, and the list...
An Atom That Refuses to Settle Down, and Why That Helps
Atoms aren’t famous for their patience. Nudge an electron up to a high energy level and it usually tumbles back...
Why Microgravity Could Make Quantum Sensors Far More Precise
Quantum company Infleqtion says space offers something labs on Earth can’t easily replicate: sustained weightlessness that lets ultra-cold atoms float...
Australian Atomic Clock Startup QuantX Lands $5M Seed Round
An Australian company building optical atomic clocks just closed a $5 million USD seed round, with Serendipity Capital leading the...