Known as biofouling, the accumulation of barnacles and other marine organisms on ships' hulls greatly decreases their hydrodynamic efficiency. This means that their engines have to work harder to move ...

05-28-2009 TECH Wrinkly Skin for Ship Hulls Would Keep Them Barnacle Free and Fuel Efficient Scientists at North Carolina State University appear to have found a holy grail in ship design: A non-toxic ...

A new coating for ships keeps clean by literally shaking off barnacle buildup. The coating moves, at a molecular level, whenever it's stimulated with stretching, pressure or electricity. A ship owner ...

Barnacles may have a small footprint, but their effect on global shipping is large. When ships’ hulls get coated with barnacles and other creatures, they use more fuel and eventually must be hauled ...

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hitchhiking on the surface of a boat hull can ...

Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...