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 ...

When students at Greentree Elementary were each challenged to design a hockey goalie mask that reflected their interests and personality, fourth grader Diana Velarde didn't quite know where to start.

Since COVID struck in late 2019, countless companies ranging from Gap to Nike to Apple began designing and producing masks and other PPE. Most of them were simple, low-tech accessories—many of which ...

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 ...

The "Mask Innovation Challenge: Building Tomorrow's Mask" contest is offering $500,000 in prize money for mask designs. Sean Gallup/Getty Images The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking ...

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 ...