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, ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Some children have been expressing fear when seeing people wearing masks all across the state of Colorado amid the coronavirus outbreak. The state is hoping to minimize that concern by ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A Miami high school student, who's also a National YoungArts winner for fashion design, is using her design ingenuity to help those in the medical community and others protect ...

Three local entrepreneurs with more than 20 years of experience in the salon and fitness apparel industries just launched a line of face masks designed for ease of wear on the go, in the gym, and ...

In addition to the new KN95s, Maskc also dropped new three-ply disposable face mask designs, including granite and jaguar prints. Like the KN95s, its disposable masks are made with gentle, ...

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 ...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, face masks are an everyday sight. But a new high-tech mask designed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looks anything but everyday.

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's design team has created a new kind of protective mask that's being distributed to retail and corporate employees, reports Bloomberg. The mask is called the Apple Face Mask and it was developed ...