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 ...

Octopus mothers slam themselves against rocks and eat their own arms before their eggs hatch. Scientists have discovered what ...

The researchers turned to hydrogels, which are water-rich, jelly-like polymers that respond to temperature and chemicals. But instead of layering different materials or embedding electronics, they ...

Nature can be surprising, and sometimes a little unsettling, especially when animals behave in ways that seem hard for us to ...

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

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 ...