The Philadelphia Eagles' return to the Super Bowl in 2025 has bettors everywhere talking about an octopus. No, this is not a ...

Octopus is back on the policy menu for Washington state lawmakers. A bill to outlaw the sale, possession, transport and distribution of farmed octopus advanced out of the House Agriculture and Natural ...

Researchers have developed a material that can change colour and texture on command, inspired by the shape-shifting camouflage of some cephalapods. Read the paper: Soft photonic skins with dynamic ...

This week’s question: A Swedish man ordered a live octopus from a seafood distributor and then spent six months teaching it to play a specially modified underwater piano, awarding the creature with ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same. Cephalopods like the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) ...

A ‘photonic skin’ with controllable colour and texture brings materials science a step closer to the adaptive camouflage found in nature. Benjamin Renz is in the 2nd Physics Institute, University of ...