The three science students from Georgia Tech arrive in brand-new Dickies coveralls, ready to enter the bowels of the Earth. "Sulphur Cave is a really dangerous place," says David Steinmann, a veteran ...

In Steamboat Springs, Colorado, there's a rare sulfur cave where people are normally forbidden to go. But Aaron Scott, the co-host of NPR's science podcast Short Wave, recently got a chance to go in.

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Smithsonian marine scientist Brett Gonzalez spent 10 days exploring the flooded caves of the Turks and Caicos in search of a rare predatory scale worm. Raven Capone Benko Staring into the mouth of ...

Sulfuric acid drips from the ceiling of a cave in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and the air is so full of toxic fumes, people are typically forbidden to go inside. Aaron Scott, the co-host of NPR's ...