As the scofflaw supervisor for Allentown Parking Authority, Jon Haney oversees efforts by Pennsylvania’s third-largest city to crack down on drivers who don’t pay their tickets. Haney and his crew ...

Car boots are so unseemly, like wearing the ball and chain that was so fashionable in the British Empire during the 17th century. As highly modernized humanoids, we can do away with that and instead ...

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 ...

Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with an ...

If you place pretty much any type of solid material in the ocean, barnacles will firmly attach themselves to it. If you were to try applying a glue to any of those materials while they were underwater ...

Even Charles Darwin marveled at the length of the barnacle's penis. In some species, it's up to eight times the body length. Not all barnacles are so well-endowed, however, raising the question of how ...

A loggerhead turtle dubbed "Barnacle Bill", found washed up on a beach in Guernsey following Storm Ciarán, has now been cut free. The turtle has been freed from barnacles which weighed up to 885g (1lb ...