A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

SYDNEY—British renewable-energy startup Octopus Energy will spin off utility management platform Kraken Technologies at a valuation of $8.65 billion. Octopus raised $1 billion in its first stand-alone ...

It has been two years since Phoenix Suns shooting guard Devin Booker's first signature Nike basketball shoe launched in extremely limited numbers at Art Basel. After dropping in every style imaginable ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year. A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

Kraken, Octopus Energy’s tech arm, has been spun off as a standalone business with $500m annual committed revenue and contracts covering 70m accounts worldwide. The move aims to accelerate global ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dying octopus in a Southern California aquarium is receiving an outflowing of love and well wishes as she spends her final days pouring her last energy into caring for her eggs — ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Ghost, a giant Pacific octopus beloved by aquarium visitors, is entering senescence, the final stage of her life.

When we think of science and poetry, we often attribute one discipline to our left brains and the other to our right brains. But what if there was a way to explore both of these avenues of thinking by ...

Scientists inspired by the octopus's nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its environment. Scientists inspired by the octopus's nervous system ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...