When Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy trudges down the tunnel at Amalie Arena to begin pregame warmups, his mask appears white with only faint gray and pale blue markings. When the ...

Sometimes rankings seem like a breeze and the final numbers feel pretty unassailable. Like ranking Connor McDavid as the best player in the league. But ranking the best of the best goalie mask design ...

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 ...

Discarded face masks are an environmental problem. UC Davis students are developing a biodegradable alternative to the N95 mask. (Getty Images) The COVID-19 pandemic has made face masks an everyday ...

Masks are a crucial tool in the fight against COVID-19, but most of them are horribly designed (or alternatively, are just about the looks): they’re stuffy, they cause maskne, they fog up your glasses ...

Welcome to The Athletic’s second-annual goalie mask power rankings, in which we admire the most artistic equipment on the ice and determine which are the best of the best. A goalie’s mask is one of ...

The summer before starting his Johns Hopkins career, first-year student Saardhak Bhrugubanda received an email from one of his future classmates. Sophomore Jerry Zhang was designing a new surgical ...

The "Mask Innovation Challenge: Building Tomorrow's Mask" contest is offering $500,000 in prize money for mask designs. Sean Gallup/Getty Images The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking ...

Design for Freedom face masks, available through Herman Miller’s online retail outpost, support efforts to raise awarness of and put an end to modern slavery practices in the building supply chain.