Quantum sensors and quantum computers may benefit from a reduction in cosmic-ray muons offered in places like the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD.
Marty Two Bulls Jr., the 2024 Artist in Residence at SURF and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, led a land art engagement of the traditional Lakota practice of “azilya,” at SURF.
Straub will oversee all surface and underground operations at SURF, the hoists and shafts, underground laboratory spaces, buildings, infrastructure, and the complex network of tunnels that make up America’s Underground Lab.
The deepest underground laboratory in the United States just finished an overhaul of a wooden mine shaft that transports personnel and supplies nearly a mile underground.
The Sanford Underground Research Facility’s (SURF) Education and Outreach team played a pivotal role at the 2025 South Dakota STEM Education Conference.
