Lauren Leffer

'We're exposed to a chemical soup.' Inside your refrigerator and pantry, plastic is everywhere.

Plastic chemicals that leach into food can have harmful health effects, but simple storage changes can help reduce exposure.

If you could only bring a handful of your most important things with you into the afterlife, what would you choose? Maybe you would opt for a favorite book or a reminder of your loved ones in the mortal realm. Or, perhaps, you'd want a snack for the journey. At an ancient burial site in Xinjiang in northwestern China, at least three bodies entombed thousands of years ago were buried with something apparently very dear to them: Cheese.

But how did it taste? If you could only bring a handful of your most important things with you into the afterlife, what would you choose?

At one point in the not-too-distant past, winter's lack of birds completely flummoxed some of history's greatest thinkers. Just a few hundred years ago philosophers posited that birds buried themselves in swamps, flew to the moon, or fully transformed into other animals during the cold months. Thanks to dedicated scientific observation, we now know that birds are neither interstellar travelers nor capable of full-body alchemy.

Experts say rapid testing for controlled substances isn't always accurate.

A new study reveals hidden inhalation differences in those born without olfaction.

When silver carp invade a waterway, they're hard to miss. The large, filter-feeding fish regularly grow more than three feet long and easily exceed 20 pounds.

From tiny jellyfish to one-ton sharks, some animals subvert scientific expectations about aging and death.

We really should be taking candy from babies.