It’s been a summer of international visitors in Boston. First, the Tartan Army (an estimated 20,000 kilt-clad Scottish fans, as rowdy as they were endearing, in Boston for the World Cup). And now, ...

Elephant sculptures in "The Great Elephant Migration" make their way along Commonwealth Avenue Mall. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) A herd of 100 life-sized elephants has just arrived on Commonwealth Avenue ...

In the United States, we brush more than 14 million gallons of toothpaste on our teeth every single year. That's roughly four to six tubes a person. When consumers are finished with the tube, research ...

One hundred elephant statues will march into one of Boston’s quintessential outdoor strips as part of a large-scale art installation. The Great Elephant Migration will transform Commonwealth Avenue ...

Fifteen elephants that died over the past month in southern Kenya are suspected to have been poisoned by tomatoes contaminated by cyanide, wildlife authorities told local media Wednesday. Authorities ...

Elephants can communicate with other elephants across distances of up to five kilometers (3 miles) by producing sounds that travel through the air. However, they have a second way of sending signals: ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...

Although genome editing was not a new concept, as zinc finger and TALEN platforms were already in use, the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 shifted genome-editing research and clinical translation into high ...

The toothpaste tube is the type of badly designed everyday object that tends to go unnoticed: It’s messy, the crumpled tubes look bad on a countertop, and tens of billions of the single-use plastic ...

You’ve vetted your supplements, scrutinized your skincare, and probably banished most of the seed oils from your kitchen. But the toothpaste you’re using twice a day, every day, has somehow escaped ...

If drought in an area persists longer, elephants move closer to areas near human settlements. This is the finding of research by biologist Irene Bouwman of Radboud University. During short-term ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Brushing teeth with saline instead of toothpaste was associated with a significant reduction in headache frequency and intensity in migraineurs, a new trial showed. After 4 weeks, ...