But with an estimated 60 percent of football concussions caused by head-on-head bangs, ScienceNOW writes, the magnets could at least put a significant dent in the number of brains that get jostled ...

Fortunately, some help may be coming, in the form of magnets. To understand why ... the more severe the concussion. The magic number is 100 Gs, or 100 times the force of gravity.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Adding magnets to football helmets could reduce the risk of concussions, new research suggests. When two players collide, the magnets in their helmets would repel each other ...

A researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University is experimenting with putting magnets in football helmets to dull the impact. NPR's Tess Vigeland speaks with neuroscientist Raymond Colello.

They're like a couple of football magnets, and now they're trying to win starting jobs with the Bombers right beside one another. “We talk about it all the time,” Newman said Sunday.