Hannah Thomasy is a freelance science writer splitting time between Toronto and Seattle. Her work has appeared in Hakai Magazine, OneZero, and NPR. This story originally featured on Undark. In March, ...

In a move to accelerate the making of next-generation face masks, two federal health agencies invited innovators to design comfortable, mass-producible protective options. Promising concepts will be ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was part of a research team investigating the design of health equipment, including masks. Masks are important for protecting healthcare workers. The Centers for ...

It’s time to up your mask game, now that Maricopa County is requiring people to wear face masks while out in public. Several local artists are making cloth masks, which means you can support the ...

A Johns Hopkins University team of 24 undergraduate students that's come up with a clear, adaptable face mask is among five finalists in a global challenge to design a better mask. The XPRIZE Next-Gen ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As states in the U.S. begin to emerge from the coronavirus lockdown, wearing a covering (such as a ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a competition to develop “the next generation of masks,” with prizes totaling $500,000. The competition — “Mask Innovation Challenge: ...

Masks can come with a number of challenges, like those foggy glasses and difficulty breathing, but there’s a new competition that’s giving designers a chance to make some improvements. The Mask ...

What’s worse: a poorly fitting face mask or an anti-masker? The answer is surely the latter, but a wearing an ill-fitting face mask definitely sucks. In the past year, it seems no one’s been able to ...