My Octopus Teacher, Feels Good Man, Spaceship Earth, and Icarus are all great science documentaries available to stream at the moment Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2241718-the-21-best-science-documentaries-you-should-watch-right-now/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Octopus is filmed punching a fish in the face
Octopuses and fish sometimes work together to find food, but this unlikely alliance doesn’t always work out. It might seem like the unlikeliest of par… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/342153/octopus-is-filmed-punching-a-fish-in-the-face…
Octopus punches fish in the head (just because it can)
Octopuses sometimes partner with fish to hunt, but the partnership comes with risks (for the fish, that is). Source: https://www.livescience.com/octopuses-punch-fish.html
Rare 9-armed octopus found off Japan coast
How did an octopus in Japan grow nine arms? Source: https://www.livescience.com/octopus-grows-nine-arms.html
Bright ‘red glob’ washes ashore in Washington. It may be a 7-armed octopus.
A seven-armed octopus unexpectedly washed ashore on Whidbey Island, Washington, even though these cephalopods aren’t native to the area. Source: https://www.livescience.com/seven-armed-octopus-washes-ashore.html
My Octopus Teacher review: The strange lives of cephalopods up close
We understand so little about octopuses that whenever we look we seem to find out more about them. Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, follows filmmaker and naturalist Craig Foster’s attempts to understand them further Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253789-my-octopus-teacher-review-the-strange-lives-of-cephalopods-up-close/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA announces Venus rover challenge winners
The Venus rover challenge – called “Exploring Hell” – received a great response from countries around the world. NASA said the design ideas submitted will help advance the final design of a mechanical rover that might one day explore the hellish surface of Venus. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nasas-venus-rover-challenge-winners-announced…
Scientists capture the world’s deepest octopus on video. And it’s adorable.
The octopus was found miles beneath the ocean surface. Source: https://www.livescience.com/worlds-deepest-octopus.html
GitHub Warns Java Developers of New Malware Poisoning NetBeans Projects
GitHub issued a security alert Thursday warning about new malware spreading on its site via boobytrapped Java projects, ZDNet reports:
The malware, which GitHub’s security team has named Octopus Scanner, has been found in projects managed using the Apache NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment), a tool used to write and compile Java applications. GitHub said it found 26 repositories uploaded on its…
The strange case of the Pacific tree octopus
Back in 1998, Lyle Zapato launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to save what he called the ‘tree octopus’. When it comes to cryptozoological creatures r… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/336547/the-strange-case-of-the-pacific-tree-octopus…