Amid a growing body of research on the long-term cumulative effects of head trauma in contact sports, especially football, a principal focus has been on helmets. Unfortunately, research about to be ...

In a room lined with football helmets, a machine whirs as it raises up one helmet a few feet. Iowa State University student Zach Murrell counts down — three, two, one — pulls a pin and the helmet ...

If you go by the Hype Cycle — Gartner’s annual tech-buzz assessment — then consumer 3D printing is about to tumble from the “peak of inflated expectations” into the “trough of disillusionment,” part ...

Dr. Robert H. Meaders is a man on a mission – protecting the heads and brains of U.S. troops. Meaders founded the nonprofit Operation Helmet in 2003, after his grandson Justin requested safer helmets ...

Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are using highly sensitive x-ray machines to study microstructures of the skull that are ...