New research suggests helmets used in World War I protected soldiers against overhead artillery blasts just as well as modern helmets—and one, the French Adrian helmet, actually performed better. When ...

iomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that, despite significant advancements in protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets are no better at protecting ...

Officers of the 117th Sanitary Train in Bertricamp, France, April 1918. (Army Reserve History Office) "Our current helmets are much better," the Army's Dr. Christopher Hoppel said Tuesday in ...

Your great-grandfather's World War I helmet that's stuffed in the back of the closet could be just as effective at preventing brain injury from some blasts as a modern-day military helmet, a recently ...