Ravel has targeted the textile fiber known as elastane, which is also called spandex or Lycra. It’s added to athletic wear, jackets, jeans, underwear, socks, t-shirts, gloves and every other ...

Facial masks have been a staple in skincare routines for centuries, used by cultures worldwide to cleanse, nourish, and revitalize the skin. While cleansers, moisturizers, and serums form the core ...

Enter: spandex, the smooth, slippery fabric the running gods have bestowed upon us to decrease friction. But not all bottoms are made equal. Some spandex shorts still ride up, are too compressive ...

Hyosung, the world’s largest maker of spandex fibers, plans to spend $1 billion on a site in Vietnam that will use Genomatica’s fermentation technology to convert sugar into 1,4-butanediol ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic took off in 2020, so too did questions over the effectiveness of wearing a face mask to prevent ...

"It's not a study of the mask but of intervention to get people to wear a mask." Recently, a review from the Cochrane Library set off a firestorm after headlines declared research published by the ...

Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health During the COVID-19 pandemic, masks were ...

Holy turnabout, Batman. Since early 2021, the U.S. has gone from having indoor face mask wearing requirements to dropping many such requirements to what can be seen in the latest update of the ...

This is made with a stretchy spandex outside and a breathable liner. One of the biggest issues with working out in masks is how much they move around when your body does. Hanes made these stretchy ...