Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) has conducted the first underground blast in a major expansion of new research space nearly a mile below the surface.
Cosmologist Neta Bahcall will explore the research of her late husband John Bahcall, whose theory guided the Nobel-Prize-winning Solar Neutrino Experiment at Homestake