LOS ANGELES — They’re not just for Halloween anymore. Expensive, realistic masks — the kind that are the hit of the costume party — increasingly are being used out of season, and not always for laughs ...

In a study by the Universities of York and Kyoto, researchers asked participants to look at pairs of photographs and decide which showed a normal face and which showed a person wearing a mask.

It’s easy to spot someone wearing a mask, right? Well, new research suggests that it can be much harder than you think. Masks are a great way to help actors get into character and scare young children ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Faces litter Landon Meier’s south Denver house. Here is Mike Tyson, gap-toothed smile, tribal face tattoo and all. Over there, Donald Trump, his ...

Scientists have created creepy hyper-realistic masks, which they claim are 'more believable than human faces.’ The silicone masks were created by researchers from the University of York and University ...

They’re not just for Halloween anymore. Expensive, realistic masks — the kind that are the hit of the costume party — are increasingly being used out of season, and not always for laughs. A white bank ...

Face masks have been worn in Japan long before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, but the pandemic has definitely made them a more integral aspect of daily life. This has led to some creative ...

Some sillicone masks are now so realistic that they can easily be mistaken for real faces, research suggests. In this study, led by Jet G. Sanders while at University of York (now Assistant Professor ...

Face masks have been worn in Japan long before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, but the pandemic has definitely made them a more integral aspect of daily life. This has led to some creative ...

Researchers asked participants to look at pairs of photographs and decide which showed a normal face and which showed a person wearing a mask. Surprisingly, participants made the wrong call in one in ...