[Image: NBBJ] A new conceptual design offers one potential solution: a building designed to initially work as lab space and then be converted to residential when labs are no longer needed.

There you have to wear special sterile suits and gloves on top of ... Davis convinced the mine owners to let him build a small lab underground. The work he did there later won him a Nobel Prize.

Sanford Lab dedicated 4,850 feet underground [Sanford Lab, via Physorg] (Top image: a 3D map of the universe’s dark matter, from NASA, ESA and R. Massey. Bottom image: Zina Deretsky, National ...

Tunnels deep underground ... sterile work and material processing, combines these simulation facilities and useful geological environment with access to the adjacent physics and chemistry ...

Dark matter — an invisible substance that somehow makes up over 80 percent of all matter in the universe — is a phenomenon that frustratingly eludes scientists. Despite being sought after for ...

The Bio-SPHERE project’s medical lab is located around half a mile under the surface, near one of the U.K.'s deepest mine sites. Image Credit ... around 0.7 miles underground in one of the ...