Barnacle-Repellant Paint Developed To Reduce Shipping Costs

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A new type of barnacle-repellant paint — based around compounds derived from the Maytenus tree — has been devised by an international group of researchers. While that, at first, may not sound like something that is that important, the reality is that the drag created by barnacles (or many other types of hitch hikers) on

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