The Barnacle is a new way for parking patrols to immobilize vehicles. Instead of using a boot to keep a wheel from moving, officers can slap a Barnacle across the windshield, suction it to the glass, ...

Some barnacles are 'morphing' to protect themselves from predatory warm-water sea snails, which are expanding into their territory due to climate change. Research led by the University of Southampton ...

The boot is not something you want to be reinvented or made more efficient; it's something you want to be removed from the face of the earth, like the Black Plague or Steven Seagal movies. Still, a ...

Barnacles exude an adhesive with exceptional bonding properties. In a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, biologists from Vienna have investigated this substance which has enormous ...

Returning to your car to find a ticket tucked under the wiper sucks. So imagine how you'd feel finding a six square foot block of yellow plastic splayed across your windshield, rendering it impossible ...

Confounding more than a century of received wisdom about crustacean sex, genetic tests show that at least one kind of barnacle can transfer sperm without making direct contact via their famously ...