Parking scofflaws in Scranton will soon get stuck between a “Barnacle” windshield blocker and their unpaid ticket citations.

UC Berkeley researcher Larry Taylor knew that present-day barnacle shells take up differently weighted oxygen atoms from bodies of water. That creates a record of the oceans they’ve been in as ...

The Scientist spoke with marine biologist and barnacle researcher John Zardus about why turtle barnacles—previously thought to be immobile—in fact slowly travel. He thinks the answer is food. Chloe ...

Also, cheap wind turbines turn out to be terrible, barnacles might give a clue to the whereabouts of MH370, and infosec can really make use of cheap microcontrollers.

These sea creatures are known as Lucifer's fingers. The barnacles are a delicacy in Europe, but catching them isn't easy. Fishermen risk their lives to find them, climbing over slippery cliffs and ...