Their high-fidelity computational model is a milestone both in biology, where it can help explain the octopus's impressive capability, and engineering. "The computational model is a useful testbed for ...

A team of engineers has developed a groundbreaking computer model that captures the complex muscle structure of an octopus ...

This looks as if this could be a photo of the interior of your great-aunt’s knitting basket – but it’s actually a cross section through the arm of an octopus. The intricate neural and muscular ...

A research team has recently published a study titled "Topology, dynamics, and control of a muscle-architected soft arm," in ...

They weren’t very far along according to Roger Hanlon, a leading expert on octopus biology and behavior, who participated in ...

I write about the world of biology. Go diving into the intertidal waters of the Great Barrier Reef along the northeastern coast of Australia, and you might happen upon a tiny octopus, no more than ...

Winters-Bostwick et al, Three-dimensional molecular atlas highlights spatial and neurochemical complexity in the axial nerve cord of octopus arms, Current Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.

Researchers, who report the discovery in the journal Marine Biology, say it's a species of "Dumbo" octopus. The name is a nod to the prominent ear-like fins just above these animals' eyes that ...

Octopuses have a superpower. They can cling to nearly any surface, no matter how wet or slippery, with their sucker-lined ...

An octopus scoots along the reef during one of ... at the Bellono Lab at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. “On a very basic level, that is intelligence.

Their high-fidelity computational model is a milestone both in biology, where it can help explain the octopus’s impressive ...