Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

Watch him navigate the shaft. Just inside the entrance, Tonya Votintseva, a Russian molecular biologist, stopped to attach a small white disk to the wall. Her official assignment is to map any ...

Nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Grass Valley captures everything a California dream town should be – historic charm, culinary delights, and a dash of Gold Rush magic that feels like stepping ...

Lead, SD, March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota is America’s Underground Lab – with cutting-edge experiments in biology ...

A study shows that the shafts of abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing gravity batteries. Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value.

More than 85% of the state's abandoned mines excavated iron-bearing magnetite ore from a wide band of hard rock formations known as the Highlands Region. Story continues below map of abandoned ...

The highway sinkholes were caused by long-forgotten mine shafts crumbling beneath the surface ... (See an interactive map of abandoned mine locations below.) “They’re everywhere,” Timothy ...

As of March 2025, the Minecraft Bedrock Edition community map pool features many great maps, offering diverse experiences for players. These are a bit rarer than Java edition maps since they're a ...

Lead, SD, March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota is America’s Underground Lab – with cutting-edge experiments in ...