BYU mechanical engineering PhD student Jake Merrell is the founder of XOnano, a company that creates his SmartFoam - a self-sensing, piezoelectric foam that can detect impact data in real time. The ...

Earlier this week, it was discovered that former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez suffered from one of the most severe forms of CTE, a degenerative brain disease that seems all too common ...

On a day where the discovery of severe CTE in Aaron Hernandez's brain served as a sobering reminder of the dangers of football, news coming out of Brigham Young University paints a more optimistic ...

For many students, the end of a semester means a long exam or an even longer term paper. For Johns Hopkins first–year mechanical engineering students in the Intro to MechE Design & CAD course, it ...

On Aug. 8, police were dispatched to a West Royalton Road address regarding a disturbance. An arriving officer talked to the caller, who said a neighbor’s kids were playing football at a nearby ...

While all eyes were on the NFL Draft this past weekend, technologists and engineers around the world were continuing their work trying to solve one of football’s biggest challenges and a major threat ...

If there's one thing we need more of, it's college football players -- offensive and defensive linemen especially -- doing gymnastics things. But there's a drawback: when said football players get ...

Ashlei Lovell, Keely Bullock and their friends pose for a photo after sliding through the True Blue Foam at Helaman Field on Friday. (Austin Rustand) Being a “true blue” BYU Cougar became more than an ...