Quick Take Picking up a live electric wire and swinging it around sounds like a terrible idea. For the blanket octopus, it is ...

Researchers unveil octopus-inspired smart skin that hides images, changes shape, and encodes data via 4D printing.

A boom in the population of common octopus in Guernsey waters has wiped more than £500,000 off the value of local shellfish landings in a year, according to a new report. The study by the UK Marine ...

It doesn't matter what type of vehicle you drive or which type of spark plug you're using. If your car has an internal combustion gasoline engine, it has the potential to eject a spark plug — although ...

Researchers have created the first materials that can change not just their colour, but also their surface texture on demand — inspired by how octopuses adjust their skin to blend in with the rocks ...

Octopus Energy raised $1 billion in its first standalone funding round for Kraken, valuing the business at $8.65 billion. The statement said "a major Kraken customer," which it did not name, and ...

Dec 29 (Reuters) - Britain's Octopus Energy said on Monday it will spin off its technology arm, Kraken, as an independent company valued at $8.65 billion, after a funding round led by U.S. investment ...

SAN DIEGO — Researchers at UC San Diego have successfully engineered bacteria to produce octopus pigment, opening the door to revolutionary applications in sunscreen, cosmetics, paint, textiles and ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --A Swedish musician spent six months working to accomplish the "worst" and "coolest" thing he has ever done: teaching an octopus to play piano. Mattias Krantz, a YouTuber whose content ...

Beach days usually come with seashells and seagulls — not an unexpected eight-armed visitor. But one lucky beachgoer at Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) snapped rare photos of an octopus making a ...

Ejector seats are designed to be as safe as possible—but there are obvious inherent dangers in a rocket-powered ejection from a fast-moving aircraft. Ejecting from a fighter jet is a wrenchingly ...

The general problem with digital photo frames is the cord that inevitably hangs out from them. They’re fine when sitting on a tabletop or desk, where you can hide the cord behind it. But forget about ...