Football helmets have come a long way since the days of the leatherheads, but there's obviously still some work to be done ...

Ex-MIT linebacker Kodiak Brush helps design the Apache helmet, earning the highest safety rating ever from Virginia Tech.

Hard and heavy is not actually better to avoid traumatic brain injury playing football. The Apache helmet shows why.

In conclusion, the test results indicate that current commercially available football headgear is unlikely to reduce concussion or more severe head injury. Impact energy attenuation performance is ...

Next time you're watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from an MIT alumnus.For the last year, former MIT middle ...