Australia's bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic ...

LEAD, S.D. (KELO) — From Mt. Rushmore to the Corn Palace, South Dakota is known for its attractions. But not a lot of people are aware that Lead, South Dakota is home to the nation’s underground ...

Researchers, students and science-lovers across the world now have access to the design of the globally significant SABRE South dark matter experiment in the lead up to its installation in the Stawell ...

Neutrinos are the most ubiquitous particles - a hundred billion zip through your fingertip each second - yet they have no charge, almost no mass, and they barely interact with other matter. A century ...

Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is on the hunt to determine the mass ordering of neutrino flavors, and its first results show ...

In the global race to directly detect dark matter, a project in South Dakota has lapped the field. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter experiment funded by the United States Department of ...

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Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface of Lead, ...

A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them. Last week, NPR's Geoff Brumfiel ...

Fallout from the latest and largest Soviet nuclear test was still drifting toward the U.S. last week when President Kennedy gave the go-ahead signal for Project Gnome, the Atomic Energy Commission’s ...

Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: While this is an awe-inspiring fact of the universe, studying these particles has been a big headache for experimental physicists for roughly 90 ...