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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Ford Motor Co. announced on Tuesday that it had designed a clear respirator mask expected to meet the safety standards of an N95 mask to help hearing impaired people read lips while protecting ...