Barnacle busting: Research targets ship biofouling
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
Individually, tiny barnacles pose little threat to hulking U.S. Navy ships. But when clustered in thick clumps on a vessel's hull—a natural occurrence called biofouling—these sticky crustaceans can slow the ship and increase its fuel consumption by 40 percent.