The MH370 flaperon was discovered thousands of miles from the suspected crash region long after the aircraft disappeared. But Jeff Wise argues that the barnacle population attached to the debris may ...

A researcher investigating the disappearance of MH370 examined barnacles that had grown on the aircraft’s recovered flaperon, arguing that their size could function like a natural clock recording how ...

Flaperons are control surfaces on the wing of an aircraft that help to stabilize the plane during low-speed flying during take-off and landing. Flaperons combine the functions of flaps and ailerons.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 mysteriously fell off the radar more than a year ago, leaving investigators stumped as to what went wrong and where exactly the plane went down. Recently, debris from ...