It’s not hard to understand why “Barnacles!” is SpongeBob SquarePants' go-to curse. For beach-goers, the hard-shelled critters can slice tender bare feet or gunk up an otherwise prize sand ...

In 2014, a Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared. A barnacle-encrusted piece of the plane's wing is one of the most important clues that has been found. New science may be able to ...

The locks are a gravity fed system used to raise and lower boats and connects the saltwater Puget Sound to the freshwater Ship ... and volunteers scrape barnacle buildup from two tunnels that ...