New Deep Observatory Dedicated

It was a big day for science Tuesday as the Sanford Underground Laboratory was formally dedicated in the former Homestake Mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Rapid City Journal reported on the occasion, noting the number of local jobs for former miners as well as the local opportunities for education. For America, the Sanford Lab will put us back among the leaders in large-scale physics projects. And for the world, the lab will help push back the frontiers of knowledge, using the quiet depths of former mines as listening posts for signals from the deep cosmos.