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The recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation to use cloth face coverings to help slow the spread of COVID-19 has generated numerous how-to articles and videos. As academics who ...

Three fashion designers created a homemade, surgical-style mask that can filter particles better than a typical cotton mask, according to their home particle testing, and they're now giving away the ...

In the last week, as I’ve worked around the clock with a cross-disciplinary group of designers and academics to develop an effective crowd-sourced DIY face mask, a lot of my smart friends (including a ...

Masks in general can make you look totally awesome, whether you wear them on Halloween or to a superhero party. Lately, we’ve been seeing a different type of mask come into vogue: Fabric face masks.