SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- From providing safety underwater, to protecting health care workers on the COVID-19 front line, scuba and snorkeling gear are being repurposed to give medical professionals ...

Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash runs a lab at Stanford University that uses low-cost materials to create effective scientific devices. He returned from a recent vacation with some scuba gear -- ...

The coronavirus has claimed more than 10,000 lives in Italy, according to Johns Hopkins University. With ventilators running low, a desperate hospital in the northern part of the country is trying ...

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The "frugal science" engineer who invented a paper microscope turned his sights to COVID-19. The result is a reusable protective mask. Manu Prakash runs a lab at Stanford University that specializes ...

Explore essential scuba gear on Amazon recommended by experts. From masks and fins to dive computers, build your personal kit ...

It’s almost impossible to describe what it’s like to scuba dive to someone who hasn’t done it. Since Jacques Cousteau’s epic film, The Silent World in 1953, divers have tried to bring back a little ...

In a win-win for sea animals and humans, a scuba diving group is turning plastic water bottles that once polluted oceans into face masks for people to protect themselves against the coronavirus. “We ...