Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

Curious, you flip it over. A row of suckers. A pair of eyes. An octopus. In particular, Amphioctopus marginatus, also known as the coconut octopus. Its common name comes from its habit of hiding ...

The deepest ever sighting of an octopus has been made by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor. The animal was spotted 7,000m down in the Java Trench - almost 2km deeper than the previous reliable ...

News that the world's first commercial octopus farm is closer to becoming reality has been met with dismay by scientists and conservationists. They argue such intelligent "sentient" creatures ...

Instead of facing up and bonded to the package leads with wires from the outside edges of the chip, any surface area of the flip chip can be used for interconnection, which is typically done ...

This was proven experimentally in 2011 when researchers tested whether an octopus could learn to guide one of its arms through a maze to reach food. The maze was designed so that the arm would have to ...

And if it's white sandy beaches you're after (same!), then perhaps a trip to Barbados is just what you need. From its ...

Even when there’s almost nothing on it, the smartphone is hard to ignore. I long pondered switching to a flip phone, but I always found an excuse to stay. Ultimately it was two of my students ...

Returning for its second edition this October in Berlin, the WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit is bringing together Europe’s leading experts and visionaries in the green energy sector to ...

It, in this case, was the octopus. And, yes, I am still waiting for the first NFL player to tell me they had heard of it before scoring one in a game. “It is one of those types of plays that do ...