Celebrate Dark Matter Day with us by taking part in this family-friendly live link deep underground to the Boulby Underground Laboratory – one of the most unusual and fascinating places to do science in the world! 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 ask the Boulby Team questions!

STFC’s Boulby Underground Laboratory has been the UK home of the search for Dark Matter since the 1990s. 1,100 m of absorbing rock 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.