The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tasked BBN Technologies with coming up with a kilometer-range X-ray scanner.

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

The Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner over Detroit has put new urgency on finding better ways to screen passengers at airports. Next week, the Transportation Security Administration will ...

A father and son tandem from New Zealand has introduced the first ever colored x-ray scanner adapted from technology used in finding the Higgs boson. Phil (father) and Anthony (son) Butler from ...

PATTON — A full-body X-ray scanner could be installed at the Cambria County Prison within two months, following Cambria County commissioners’ vote on Thursday to purchase the machine. Commissioners ...

Questions are being raised about the safety of X-ray body scanners at some airports across the country, after an article this week suggesting that anywhere from six to 100 passers each year could get ...

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UPDATE: All TSA equipment is now back in operation, according to the City of Tyler, following repairs made on Monday. TYLER, Texas (KETK) — Delays are expected at the Tyler Pounds Regional Airport as ...

Thanksgiving weekend is traditionally one of the busiest traveling holidays of the year. As if remembering to pack your travel-sized liquids and easy slip-off shoes wasn’t enough to worry about, some ...

Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a prototype X-ray scanning machine that reveals not just the shape of an object but its molecular composition. With unprecedented resolution and accuracy ...

Rapiscan's full body scanners were removed from airports in the US after privacy experts said they were the equivalent of a 'digital strip search'.