Bloomberg Businessweek
04/28/10

By CHET BROKAW
The Associated Press

PIERRE, S.D. -- An underground science lab being developed thousands of feet underground in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota's Black Hills aims to boost research and education worldwide, Gov. Mike Rounds said Wednesday.

Rounds spoke in a video link to the Internet2 conference in Virginia dealing with improving the capacity and technology of the Internet. Scientists nearly a mile underground in the former Homestake gold mine also described how it is being converted into laboratories that will conduct research into physics, biology, geology and other subjects.

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