U.S. Navy-supported researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that could help keep solar panels operating at high efficiency even underwater. According to Interesting Engineering ...

A new polymer removes biofilms—mats of microbes and their exuded substances—by mimicking a fluid oozed by barnacles (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09311). The material could ...

A stock image of barnacles. The shells of these crustaceans found growing on debris from flight MH370 may give clues as to where the crash occurred.

Underwater Robots Are Helping Maritime Shipping Clean Up Its Act A growing army of machines is improving ships’ fuel efficiency by scraping algae, seaweed and barnacles off their hulls. Facebook ...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing 10 years ago and since then, searches have failed to discover the crash site. But the Lepas anatifera barnacle attached to floating debris offered new hope.

The team, from Riviera Beach-based Atlantic Underwater Diving Services, spent about an hour and 15 minutes removing barnacles and other growth from the vessel's hull.

More than 400 underwater sites across the U.S. may be contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO)—decades-old bombs and munitions that failed to detonate and now pose serious safety risks ...

A new study shows for the first time that the proteins in the natural adhesive of barnacles are good at preventing the corrosion of metals in seawater (Commun. Mater. 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s43246-024 ...

For millennia, underwater forests of seaweed or large brown algae stretched from the seafloor to the ocean’s surface, forming canopies, much like trees, and providing food, shelter and hunting ...

Underwater archaeologists may have found the Recovery, an 18th-century British treasure ship lost off Wexford, Ireland, that carried valuable cargo including marble and bronze.

Why do so many bikes end up underwater? ... a Citi Bike here in New York City where I live turned up at a docking station, kind of blistered with oysters and barnacles.

He said that it's not uncommon for whales to have barnacles on their skin — and if that had been the case in this situation, ... Divers visit mysterious 1904 shipwreck more than 500 feet underwater.