Brain injury is not easy to understand or prevent and this is why research investigating the cause of mild traumatic brain injury and CTE is critically important. In this AFL-GameGear news story, the stakeholders include, the athletes and their loved ones, the AFL leaders, AFL standards committee, neuroscience experts and GameGear product developers. Do they …
If you’re attending the 20th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics then keep and eye out for PANTHER researchers.
There’s a new paper out this week from Prof. Haneesh Kesari’s group at Brown University in Providence, RI. The paper proposes a new algorithm that can use the outputs of three tri-axial sensors and one gyroscope to track the head’s motion during an impact. This new algorithm allows all the sensors to be arranged in …
The New York Times article The Questionable Science Behind the Odd-Looking Football Helmets by Ken Bolson published Feb 3,2026 raises questions about Guardian Caps and highlights the need for a better understanding of concussion.
The dates for the International Forum on Blast Injury Countermeasures 2026 have been announced Important dates: IFBIC 2026 will cover several topic areas, including blast injury epidemiology; blast injury mechanisms; clinical characteristics of blast; prevention, protection, and mitigation of blast injury; emerging combined blast effects and related injuries; and novel methods and technology for blast …