A treasure trove of around 635 million kilograms (1.4 billion pounds) of cheese sits a few hundred feet beneath the ground in the US, having been stashed there by the government. Why? Well, it's kind ...

Government cheese myths lie beneath the surface of Missouri cheese caves. gyro / Getty Images Picture it now: Hundreds of feet below the surface, converted limestone mines are home to thousands and ...

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Caves that were once used for making beer in the 1800s are now used for making cheese. "We have four 21,000-pound vats here. And we roughly pump out 40,000 pounds of cheese a week," Nick Williamette ...

Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese cave turned out to be exactly that for Benjamin Wolfe, associate professor of biology, and ...

Picture it now: Hundreds of feet below the surface, converted limestone mines are home to thousands and thousands of pounds of cheese. If there’s a heaven, this might be it. But it's off limits to ...