Nurses and doctors have gone to creative extremes to reuse the same masks, gloves and scrubs they need to treat contagious coronavirus patients. But if a prototype mask created by researchers proves ...

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still short of N95 respirators (i.e. masks) -- a product most people probably knew nothing about before this year. Here in California, we've been ...

Bioengineers at Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up with clinicians at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital to design N95 masks that can be sterilized for reuse. As ...

That's why a team at MIT has designed a device to assess how well a mask fits an individual user, quickly and easily. Known as cMaSK (conformable multimodal sensor face mask), the tool was designed to ...

Respiratory protection is of utmost importance in the workplace. Millions of people work in potentially harmful environments that contain harmful dusts, toxic fumes, smokes, fogs, sprays, and so on.

The reusable cloth masks people have been using for the past year or more may look a little worse for the wear. But new research from the University of Colorado Boulder finds that washing and drying ...