In research that could lead to better gas mask filters, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been putting the X-ray spotlight on composite ...

N95 masks, also called N95 respirators, are personal protective equipment (PPE) that filter airborne particles such as ...

In an interesting twist, more civilians are buying something once limited to war zones. Tactical gas masks may not be on the shopping list for every Florida consumer, but the U.S. market for gas masks ...

Four years ago, long before the pandemic made masks ubiquitous, a U.K.-based startup called Masuku began developing a better face mask to help filter out pollution in smoggy cities. Masks on the ...

With the “Great War“ in seemingly a stalemate situation, the Germans in late April of 1915 introduced a horrific and new weapon. For a conflict that is known for reaching new heights in man’s ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Chemical weapons proved so insidious in World War I that they were never used in such a massive scale again. While the first widespread use of poison gas occurred on ...