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Detectors and sensors

Atomic clocks in space could detect gravitational waves

20 Jun 2016 Hamish Johnston
Image of a clock face
Clocks in space: narrowband gravitational-wave detector could take off. (Courtesy: iStockphoto/hh5800)
A proposal for a gravitational-wave detector made of two space-based atomic clocks has been unveiled

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