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 (SURF) recently donated a high-end projector to the Homestake Opera House, as part of an ongoing effort to restore the treasured theater for the community.
The global hunt for dark matter continues to push uncharted territory—and knowing where dark matter isn’t, is an important part of helping find where it is.
Since 2012, Spearfish High School science teacher Steve Gabriel has been leading a student mentorship program that gives his students hands-on, real-world experience in monitoring the underground airflow at SURF.
Join photographers from around the world to document the excitement of Neutrino Day, a select number will go behind the scenes at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF)—one of the world’s leading underground science labs.
The Price of Gold: Stories from the Homestake Gold Mine is a coffee table book with film portraits of and short stories from those who once worked at the Homestake Gold Mine before it transformed into America’s Underground Lab.
Dan James, a 25-year employee of the former Homestake Mining Company who was instrumental in establishing SURF, has retired after spending more than four decades on the site.
Courtney Justice, a third-grade teacher at Rapid Valley Elementary School in Rapid City, is planting seeds of possibility in her classroom—one science experiment at a time.
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