People want to help each other, even when it costs them something and even when the motivations to help don’t always align, a new study suggests. In research published earlier this month in the journal Science Advances, sociologists found that…
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has sent 8 million masks and millions of other pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to 15 different African nations. Including almost one million facial visors, 600,000 plastic hair caps, and 60,000 gowns, the aid…
SWNS These young BFFs who live next door from each other in England can finally play together again from quarantine after one of their crafty moms turned a section of their garden fence into a perspex window. Since the novel…
Masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment (PPE) are essential for protecting healthcare workers—however, the textiles and materials used in such items can absorb and carry viruses and bacteria, inadvertently spreading the disease the wearer sought to contain. When the…
James Dyson, the manufacturing mastermind behind cyclone vacuum technology and other inventions, received a personal call from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to build ventilators—a medical device sorely needed in the treating of COVID-19 patients. “A ventilator supports a patient who…
