MIT scientists looked at sneeze "splatter" to explore how germs are spread. This sequence illustrates the evolution of the multiphase turbulence cloud that suspends droplets emitted during a sneeze.

Tiny droplets linger in the air for minutes in the aftermath of swirling tornadoes of fragmented mucus. This is the latest portrait painted by a team of MIT researchers who use high-speed imaging to ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Did you know that a sneeze is actually a "high-propulsion" cloud that can rapidly infect a room? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have caught it on video ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Flu season is widespread in every state except Hawaii, and the Centers for Disease Control says the overall hospitalization rate is also high. One of the common ways the flu is ...

Led by Dr. Lydia Bourouiba, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revealed how a sneeze travels and spreads infection. For years, the research team has been analyzing the act of ...

New, super-gross research out of MIT is shedding new insights into what happens when we sneeze. Researchers from the university used high-speed photography to record 100 healthy volunteers right at ...

(WHTM) — Everyone has experienced a sneeze. Whether it’s allergies, an illness, or just a random sneeze that seemed to appear out of nowhere, have you ever wondered what happens to your body during ...

A sneeze happens when something like mucus, a tiny object, or an allergen interacts with skin or the tiny hairs that line your nose. Sneezing is a mechanism your body uses to clear the nose. When ...

Researchers have used high-speed videos of a person sneezing to identify the optimal cloth mask design. During the COVID-19 pandemic, cloth face masks became a way to help protect yourself and others ...

If you were to envision the kind of accident that would cause a person’s bowels to explode out of their body, you might imagine some sort of gruesome stabbing or grisly car accident. You’d probably ...