Flexible material mimics octopus skin with nanoscale color and texture transformations

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...
Nature

Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand

A material that can switch its appearance, cephalopod-style, could have future applications in robotics or display technology ...

How scientists learn from the masters of invisibility: octopuses

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...
foxweather

See it: Man vacationing in the Philippines unknowingly handled the world's deadliest octopus

SANTA FE, Philippines – A British man in the Philippines unknowingly handled one of the deadliest animals in the world on Wednesday. Andy McConnell was vacationing in the Philippines when he stumbled ...
Couriermail

UK tourist handles blue-ringed octopus before video goes viral

Andrew McConnell, a journalist and glass historian from Antiques Roadshow in the UK shared the experience to social media saying: “My close encounter with death. Exploring the world alone, 11,000km ...
UPI

Swedish man teaches pet octopus to play piano

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 ...
SFGate

Giant, rare 7-armed sea creature spotted in California's Monterey Bay

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition in Monterey Bay. The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by ...