ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army researchers and industry partners recently published a study showing how they developed new materials and manufacturing methods to create higher performing helmet ...

A little padding goes a long way. That's what researchers found when trying to find out how helmets can provide better protection from blunt force contact. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National ...

Local inventor Philip R. Harris thinks he has a solution, or at the very least, a step in the right direction toward fixing the problem of concussions in youth sports. Harris, a Goshen resident, has ...

Football players (and anyone else who takes hard hits) may want to breathe a sigh of relief. Engineers at CU Boulder and Sandia National Laboratories have been hard at work researching and developing ...

Feb. 12—A potential new design for padding in sports helmets could absorb as much as 25% more impact than existing foams, adding additional protection from head injuries. The design, created by ...

"An improvement over state-of-the-art vinyl-nitrile foam helmet pads was achieved during a standard helmet test, leading to lower head acceleration. This breakthrough could pave the way to helmets ...