Octopus mobile app users can now make payments at millions of merchants across Japan in a move that will bring convenience to many Hongkongers planning to visit the country. Users can pay by scanning ...

Expecting his normal catch of plaice, turbot and Dover sole, Arthur Dewhirst was surprised when his nets spilled their contents on to his ship’s deck earlier this year. Instead of shiny, flapping fish ...

Ghost always knew when it was showtime. Stretching her eight arms across the tank, the octopus would glide mid-water almost as if she were dancing, leaving admirers on the other side of the glass ...

British renewable energy provider Octopus Energy said this week that it’s spinning off Kraken, its tech platform for utilities, spurred in part by $500 million in committed annual revenue from other ...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - Octopus Energy said on Thursday it would spin its technology arm Kraken Technologies off and named Tim Wan as the newly separated company's chief financial officer, as Britain ...

Neutra, a naturalized American citizen who emigrated from Austria, was instrumental in creating Southern California’s midcentury-modern design aesthetic, while the Case Study Houses, a program ...

Dive into the deep sea with Orbit: Science for kids to discover the fascinating world of the Giant Pacific Octopus! In this episode, marine biologist René Carbajal, who cares for the giant pacific ...

The octopus is a striking creature. Their most defining feature, of course, is their eight arms. A new study of octopuses has now documented exactly how those eight arms are used in the wild.

Researchers studied octopuses in the wild to learn whether they favor one of their eight arms over the others for certain jobs, but found the creatures give new meaning to ambidextrous. KUOW is ...

Octopus arms are one of the most flexible structures known in all of the biological world. Their agility is so extraordinary that robotics researchers want to learn the secrets behind their movements, ...