Face Shields No Match for Sneeze Vortex Rings
WASHINGTON, December 8, 2020 — Do face shields provide enough protection to the wearers against COVID-19 if they don’t also wear a mask? Spoiler alert: no. But […]
COVID-19 Virus Survives on Surfaces Within Thin Film
WASHINGTON, November 24, 2020 — How does the COVID-19 virus manage to survive on surfaces? To find out, researchers in India are exploring the drying times of […]
Face Masks Slow Spread of COVID-19; Types of Masks, Length of Use Matter
WASHINGTON, November 24, 2020 — The use of face masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19 has been widely recommended by health professionals. This has triggered […]
Plasma Treatments Quickly Kill Coronavirus on Surfaces
WASHINGTON, November 10, 2020 — Researchers from UCLA believe using plasma could promise a significant breakthrough in the fight against the spread of COVID-19. In Physics of […]
Valves on N95 Masks Do Not Filter Exhaled Droplets
WASHINGTON, November 10, 2020 — If you have seen someone wandering around the grocery store or elsewhere with a mask with a valve on it and wondered […]
Squid Jet Propulsion Can Enhance Design of Underwater Robots, Vehicles
WASHINGTON, November 3, 2020 — Squids and other cephalopods use a form of jet propulsion that is not well understood, especially when it comes to their hydrodynamics […]
Tracking Flight Trajectory of Evaporating Cough Droplets
WASHINGTON, November 3, 2020 — The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led many researchers to study airborne droplet transmission in different conditions and environments. The latest studies are […]
Aerosol Microdroplets Inefficient Carriers Of COVID-19 Virus
WASHINGTON, October 27, 2020 — Aerosol microdroplets, the tiny particles that linger in the air longest after we talk, cough, or sneeze, do not appear to be […]
Estimating Risk of Airborne COVID-19 with Mask Usage, Social Distancing
WASHINGTON, October 26, 2020 — The continued increase in COVID-19 infection around the world has led scientists from many different fields, including biomedicine, epidemiology, virology, fluid dynamics, […]