A new study by scientists at USC and California State University, Northridge, reveals that face masks—while important to public health and recommended in many health care settings—can make it ...

Apple has quietly updated its “Face with Medical Mask” emoji with friendlier eyes, eyebrows, and rosy cheeks. It appears to be Apple’s “Smiling Face” emoji, with a mask on top.

José inherited his mask collection, but he couldn’t look at it because he felt too sad. So I traded him about 10 drawings and some photographs for it.” Weirdest: “The weirder the better for me.

Sometime in the late 1960s my father, a very handy guy, made a pair of papier-mache Halloween masks for my brother and me. One was a sad-faced clown, only really sad — more like anguished, in ...