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More than 250 physicists and researchers attended the international DUNE conference hosted by South Dakota Mines May 18-22, bringing together members of the DUNE collaboration that includes more than 1,500 scientists from over 220 institutions across 38 countries.

CERN Director-General Mark Thomson met with dignitaries and officials at SURF on May 7 to mark a milestone for the international DUNE experiment.

Hundreds of Black Hills residents joined the DUNE celebration in Lead by signing one of the massive beams that will be placed underground as part of the DUNE detector structures.

Officials and international partners of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment gathered in Lead, SD, on May 7 to celebrate the installation of the detector structures.

An event in Lead, SD to commemorate the start of moving 4.5 million kilograms of steel beams underground to hold DUNE’s detectors in place was attended by senior officials including CERN director-general Mark Thomson and Dario Gil, undersecretary for science at DOE.

Naperville TV reports on the new addition to the American bison herd at Fermilab born on April 21.

The Underground Construction Association awarded the LBNF project the 2026 Project of the Year award to the teams who removed over 800,000 tons of rock from this extreme depth.

The first cinnamon-colored baby bison was born at Fermilab on April 21. The new calf is healthy and the calf is staying close to its mother as it takes its first steps on the open grassland.

The first bouncing baby bison of the spring season arrived Tuesday morning at Fermilab.

On April 18, the winners of some of the most lucrative prizes in science, were announced at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony. The Muon g-2 collaboration won the award in Fundamental Physics for the most precise measurement of the muon to date.