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During the XX century, the Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics community developed a toolkit that enabled the precise manipulation of atoms and molecules. This level of control over atoms and molecules allowed them to create and study quantum states of matter in the lab for extended periods of time. These purely quantum states are very fragile, and any environmental change modifies the state. This can now be exploited to obtain extremely precise information about the environment. In this talk, the speaker will discuss how this can be used to enable orders of magnitude improvement in sensing of accelerations with applications in geophysics and earth observation for climate modelling, as well as in the development of a mid-frequency gravitational wave observatory and an ultra-light dark matter detector.