Video: Octopus Changes Color, Textures
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It's a rock! It's a coral! No, it's an octopus. Watch an underwater "master of disguise" literally change its spots to avoid predators and stalk prey.
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Tycho: The whole reason I wrote that other post was to link the new article about it at 1up, and I didn't even manage to do that - here you go. In a way, I'm glad I didn't link it before - in the intervening period, a new episode of the 1up show has dropped that has a ton of interview and video material for every part of Episode 2 - including TF2 and Portal. It's the top video on this page. Unbelievably delicious.(CW)TB
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Microscopic imaging techniques have enabled scientists to delve deep into the brain of a living animal to see how visual circuitry works.
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An image gallery containing creatures and objects made with Blender, an open-source 3D tool.
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A new website provides an innovative tool that expands and contracts images while minimizing  distortion.
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IN AN OCTOPUS'S NURSERY: Aurora, a female giant octopus who hit it off with an elderly male of the species at the Alaska Sealife Center in May, had been tending thousands of eggs ever since. Her sweetheart, J-1, died in September.
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We may be watching very colorful TVs thanks to a new stretchable material that bends light, producing every color visible to the human eye. By SeÃ¡n Captain.
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We have completely redesigned Halfpixel.com in our desire to make it the premiere site for people interested in learning more about making their own webcomics. The site will feature guest columns, shop talk, and updates/errata to our upcoming How to Make Webcomics book. We&#8217;ll also be posting more how-to videos and tutorials. We&#8217;d love to hear your [...]
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A new material allows researchers to write and erase 3-D images for displays.
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Researchers investigating catfish eggs that have a strange purple color have discovered heavy-metal water pollution that is being examined as a possible cause for the phenomenon.
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Boffins in mutant albino batrachian IP brouhaha Japanese boffins have used artificial insemination to breed mutant frogs with transparent skin. The scientists reckon this will make biological research - not to mention school biology lessons - signifcantly less messy and traumatic, as it will no longer be necessary to cut the slime-filled creatures up in order to examine their innards.â¦
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The collapse of two Antarctic ice shelves is offering scientists a glimpse of rarely seen species&#8212;and at how pristine ocean ecosystems respond to sudden change.&#149; See photos >>
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By Natasha Derrick, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 15--From a distance, a satellite picture of Madagascar appears to be a spindly octopus with long, rusty red tendrils. Or perhaps it is the sprawling flow of lava from an erupting volcano.
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WASHINGTON -- The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics...
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Scientists have tested whether cellular audio is good enough to play and record animal sounds in the wild.
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Life & style: Blokarting, octopush, goalball - weird new fusion games are being invented all the time to encourage more people to play sport. Anyone for blackminton?