The heading of a soccer ball—an intrinsic and routine feature of play in the world's most popular field sport—causes long-term damage to areas of the brain associated with learning, according to a new ...

Soccer heading has long been suspected of impacting brain health, but exactly where and how it leaves a mark has been a blind spot. Now, for the first time, scientists have a clear picture of the ...

"Heading" the ball might affect amateur soccer players' brain health, a new study says. Players who used their heads to pass or deflect a soccer ball were more likely to develop changes within the ...

Women soccer players face a greater risk of serious injury when heading the ball than men, according to researchers. The risk for concussion can be so great, it was the focus of a discussion at ...

On Wednesday, researchers from DeepMind released a paper ostensibly about using deep reinforcement learning to train miniature humanoid robots in complex movement skills and strategic understanding, ...