Learn more about the chemical compound oleamide that leaks from plastic pollution and changes octopus meal preferences.

Learn how octopuses use microbial signals to detect rotten food and unviable eggs.

Professor Tim Coulson describes evolution as a gradual process that alters living organisms over generations. The mechanism ...

More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics ...

Octopus mothers slam themselves against rocks and eat their own arms before their eggs hatch. Scientists have discovered what leads to the self-destruction.

The effort began when Joelle Haley, whose 8-week-old son Kieran was born at DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital two days after Christmas 2025 at 24 weeks, two days of gestation, heard a nurse mention the NICU ...

Octopuses exhibit distinct sleep stages, mirroring human patterns with quiet and active phases. During active sleep, their ...

The name “sea hare” comes from the two tentacles on their heads that resemble a rabbit’s ears. Learn more about this marine mollusk.

Six planets, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter, will be visible, according to NASA. Seeing a parade of six ...

Ringo Starr only wrote two songs for The Beatles, including 'Octopus's Garden', which was once described by his bandmate George Harrison as "really great".

Serious Play: Constructive mischief that has a serious purpose, such as challenging one’s own and others’ thinking. Befriend Ignorance, rather than treating it as a foe: Properly engaged, filling in ...