I'm starting off by stepping aside and letting Erin Sloan bring you this first item. So when I saw a toy designed for children with congenital heart disease to learn more about their own hearts, I ...

University of Science and Technology of China has made a fascinating development in robotics, with the octopus-inspired robotic arm led by Nikolaos Freris. It combines the dexterity of a human hand ...

A Swedish YouTuber who set out to teach an octopus to play the piano spent six months coaxing the creature, named Takoyaki, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American An octopus spends most of its time crawling ...