Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

A diver filmed an affectionate encounter with a Maori octopus that was seen gently embracing her camera near a pier in Rye, Australia.

Many animals possess the fascinating ability to change colour. Chameleons adjust nanocrystals for temperature control and ...

Octopus arms possess a remarkable capacity for intricate and diverse motions achieved through sequential deformation of the body. This paper aims to reproduce octopus-like reaching movements ...

These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains — nine, to be exact. In addition to a central brain located between its eyes, an octopus has eight separate clusters of nerve cells, called ganglia ...

The company described its platform as a “smart nervous system.” It added that platform enables robots to sense, adapt, and interact with the physical world with human-like precision and speed. Tacta ...

Drug delivery through complex skin is currently being studied using various innovative structural and material strategies due to the low delivery efficiency of the multilayered stratum corneum as a ...

The octopus nervous system is unlike anything in the animal kingdom. Roughly two-thirds of its 500 million neurons are located in its arms, not its central brain.

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) has around 500 million neurons, similar to the number in a dog’s brain. However, unlike dogs or cats, the majority of an octopus’s neurons are located in its arms, ...