But what about your neck? A helmet under development in British Columbia answers that question with engineering that allows the head to respond in a different way when it’s impacted head-first.

Carlsbad-based Light Helmets has used their state-of-the-art technology to develop a football helmet that will reduce head injuries, and it's not just with tackle football, as they have also ...

The Fluid Inside head protection system is designed to not just protect an athletes skull, but the brain as well, by mimicking the fluids that protect us from repeated impacts and sudden, jarring ...

For deep-diving mixed-gas divers, it's far worse. Routinely diving below 130 ft (40 m), the divers are always in pitch darkness, relying on work and helmet lights, and they are tethered to the ...

A Georgia high school football player was wearing a highly-rated helmet when he was hit Friday night and later died of a brain injury.

Once underwater, the helmet's buoyancy lightened its weight to 15 pounds, just enough to keep it comfortably in place. The helmet remains attached to a topside air hose.

UC Biomedical Engineering Professor in the College of Engineering stands in front of a row of football helmets, which, according to his calculations, don't adequately protect the back of the head.