Many ship bottoms are painted red. TRAVELBOOK explores the reasons for this coloring, whether other colors are possible, and ...

Known as biofouling, the accumulation of barnacles and other marine organisms on ships' hulls greatly decreases their hydrodynamic efficiency. This means that their engines have to work harder to move ...

WASHINGTON – A treaty that forbids the maritime use of what the Environmental Protection Agency deems the most toxic chemical ever deliberately released into the world’s waters is expected to be ...

A new type of fire-retardant, water-based paint has been developed for use on ships by Battelle Memorial Institute`s laboratory in Columbus, Ohio. The odorless paint can be applied either when a ship ...

Emissions from copper-based antifouling paints are a well-known environmental problem. As much as 40 percent of copper inputs to the Baltic Sea come from antifouling paints on ships and leisure boats.

A pigment package designed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to slow discoloration of the exterior coating on surface ships has started to make its way into the fleet and is producing early, ...

Sorry, sunlight. A new paint in development is designed to bounce the sun's rays off of metal surfaces, such as those on buildings or military ships. The coating ...

So you've saved up for a new battleship in EVE Online, and you're eager to start blasting stuff into space dust, but there's one problem: your battleship looks a little boring. How are you meant to ...