Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.View full profile Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome ...

How often does a material shift its color and surface texture on demand, then return to baseline as if nothing happened? A recent line of cephalopod-inspired engineering points to an answer that looks ...

In a flash, an octopus can make like ragged-edged seaweed or coral by changing the color and texture of its skin, thus becoming nearly invisible in its environment. And in the future, robots may be ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In five years, CEO Camille Martin went from dissecting ...

Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve a limited set of functions. To address this inflexibility, researchers at ...

Some of the most amazing creatures live in the deep blue sea. Cuttlefish, squids and octopuses, for example. These soft-bodied cephalopods have a strikingly sophisticated nervous system, camera-like ...