UC Davis research shows that face coverings are highly effective in blocking expired airborne particles that could transmit viruses, even if the masks do not seal around the face. Masked students at ...

(Nanowerk News) As part of SpaceX's CRS-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched Dec. 5, researchers from NASA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New York ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a nanoscale engineering method that transforms tiny particles into “LEGO- like” modular building blocks. Led by the University of Melbourne and published ...

The organized assembly of particles into superstructures is typically governed by specific molecular interactions or external directing factors associated with the particle building blocks, both of ...

A federal lab found that many of the imported N95- and KN95-style masks they tested failed to block out 95% of particles like they are supposed to. The FDA granted emergency-use authorization for the ...

A new study from the UC Davis and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai confirms that surgical masks effectively reduce outgoing airborne particles from talking or coughing, even after allowing ...