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

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 ...

After the event, a TSA spokesperson posted a tweet pleading with travelers: 'Please do not send your pet through the X-ray unit' A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent got quite 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 ...

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 ...

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'.

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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 ...

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 ...

Manufacturing defects can range from minor to serious to the deadly. A misaligned sneaker sole could cause a sprained ankle, while a flawed battery in an EV might catch fire. Cambridge startup ...