The organizers behind Coney Island’s iconic Mermaid Parade are bringing their love for quirkiness and creativity to a new competition: an online face mask design contest. The “Put on a Funny Face Mask ...

For Richard Gordon, origami is like a piece of music. While an individual fold may not be particularly impressive, many together can make the paper sing. A floppy sheet can transform into a flapping ...

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 ...

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: ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Sometimes, art imitates life. Soon in Columbus, art could help save life — or at least protect health amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A large group of area artists have created designs ...

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 ...