In desperate times, wearing a cloth mask is better than having no mask on at all ⁠— true or false? Well, yes and no. Dr Chen Xiaoting, a Taiwanese anaesthesiologist, is one proponent of using cloth ...

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The Ahmedabad Textile Industrys Research Association in collaboration with the Defence Research and Development Organisation has produced a high quality cloth to make masks of 99 per cent filter ...

During World War II, nylon stockings disappeared from store shelves as the valuable synthetic material was diverted to make critical wartime supplies such as parachutes, flak jackets and aircraft fuel ...

Cholera is a waterborne disease that causes severe diarrhoea. It kills tens of thousands of people a year world-wide. Scientists have long known that the bacteria that cause cholera live in a mutually ...