Major Flooding Inundates Drought-Stricken Colorado Cities
LONGMONT, Colo.—Three days of soaking rain in Colorado have unleashed damaging floods in and around Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs and isolated some towns in the foothills of the Rockies.
Gene Sequencing Reveals the Dynamics of Ancient Epidemics
New DNA recovery and sequencing technology is at last allowing scientists to assemble entire genomes of ancient scourges—and elusive modern ones
How Octopus Arms Regenerate With Ease
Like a starfish, an octopus can regrow lost arms. Unlike a starfish, a severed octopus arm does not regrow another octopus. But the biological secrets inside their arm regeneration feat do hold the promise of learning more about how we might better regenerate our own diseased or lost tissue.
Even Severed Octopus Arms Have Smart Moves
The eight wily arms of an octopus can help the animal catch dinner, open a jar and even complete a convincing disguise. But these arms are not entirely under the control of the octopus’s brain.
Will the Robot Uprising Be Squishy?
Octopuses offer an extreme engineering challenge: They are almost infinitely flexible, entirely soft-bodied and incredibly intelligent. Are we vertebrate humans ever going to be able to build anything as deformable and complex as a real octopus?
3-D Printed Jets Mimic Octopus Propulsion
Octopuses Survive Sub-Zero Temps Thanks to Specialized Blue Blood
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Deep-Sea Octopus Hatches Fully Formed, Walks Away [Video]
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Lady Octopus Attracts Mates with a Glowing Kisser
8 Awesome Octopus Facts for World Oceans Day
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Great Glowing Octopus! [Video]
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Telescope Octopus Has Totally Tubular Eyes
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Argonaut Octopus Builds a "Shell" for Swimming [Video]
Unusual Offshore Octopods: The See-Through "Glass" Octopus [Video]
Unusual Offshore Octopods: More (Octopus) Suckers Born Every Minute in Cold Water
Unusual Offshore Octopods: The `Dumbo' Octopus Swims with Fins [Video]
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Does the World's Largest Octopus Only Have Seven Arms? [Video]
Female Octopus Arms Reach Farther, Robot Research Group Finds [Video]
Unusual Offshore Octopods: The Weapon-Wielding Blanket Octopus [Video]
Dung Beetles Follow the Stars
The excrement-rolling bugs navigate by the light of the Milky Way
Use for 3-D Printers: Creating Internal Blood Vessels for Kidneys, Livers, Other Large Organs
To build large organs that work properly, researchers need to find a way to lace them with blood vessels
Unusual Octopods: A Flapjack Devilfish Octopus [Video]
Unusual Octopods Elude Science: The Case of the Football Octopus
Mimic Octopus Makes Home on Great Barrier Reef