Join us for this live online visit to one of the world’s most unusual labs: the Boulby Underground Laboratory, located 1.1km underground.

Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025

Time: 19:30 – 20:15

You’ll hear about the amazing work that takes place there, see the different areas of the lab and find out what it’s like to work over a kilometre underground. There will be plenty of opportunity to as the Boulby Team questions.

STFC’s Boulby Underground Laboratory has been the UK home of the search for Dark Matter since the 1990s. 1,100m of absorbing tock overhead reduces cosmic rays to a millionth of surface levels – combine this with the surrounding rock salt being low in background radiation, it makes it ideally placed to hunt for the missing matter that makes up our universe.

This unique facility also allows scientists, engineers and technicians to work in a whole range of other areas, looking at questions such as how organisms react to environments devoid of radiation, testing and developing instruments and rovers for planetary exploration, tsunami early-warning systems, new methods of energy storage and much more. Attendees will visit this amazing laboratory, taking the seven-minute ‘cage’ ride down deep below the surface, and walking through the mine tunnels on the way to the lab.