Millions of discarded face masks from the COVID-19 pandemic are now breaking down, creating an environmental hazard that could linger for generations, a study warns. Researchers from Coventry ...

The mask that saved us from a big danger like Corona, is now posing another danger in the coming times. According to a ...

Masks were critical in fighting Covid-19, but billions of them are now causing an environmental crisis. Studies show ...

A study revealed that discarded face masks, especially FFP2 and FFP3, release microplastics and Bisphenol B, posing long-term ...

At the height of the pandemic, the world rightly used more than 100 billion disposable face masks per month. Now the ...

A deadline is approaching for a new California bill that would ban law enforcement from wearing face coverings. Senate Bill 627, filed by state Sens. Scott Weiner and Jesse Arreguin in June, is being ...

Japan's current account surplus masks business difficulties Japan posted another current account surplus in June, despite deficits in both trade and services. An economist warns that the difficulties ...

Abstract: Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) aims to accurately segment query images with guidance from only a few annotated support images. Previous methods typically rely on pixel-level feature ...

The long, strange story of masking and law enforcement. Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By Sabrina Tavernise One of the defining images of President Trump’s second term so far ...

The Russian economy has proven much more durable through three and half years of full-scale war in Ukraine, and a decade of Western sanctions, than many would have expected. Expectations of a collapse ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday released the national accounts for Q2 2025, which revealed stronger-than-expected growth. Analysts had tipped a 0.4% rise in headline GDP, and ...