Truly bad ideas never die, in my opinion. So I wasn’t surprised to hear that, while the Transportation Security Administration says it is removing those much-reviled backscatter body-imaging scanners ...

When most people tackle DIY projects related to airports, it’s usually some kind of over-the-top commercial airline simulator. But not Ben Krasnow He took a decidedly different approach by building ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The harshest critics labeled them “virtual strip searches.” Airport passenger screening that produced particularly realistic full-body images using backscatter technology.

Bloomberg is reporting that the TSA will be removing all of the remaining backscatter X-ray machines from US airports. The removal isn't because of health concerns—instead, the machines' manufacturer, ...

Privacy concerns forced TSA to scrap its backscatter machines, but radiation levels -- and possible future uses -- are still being studied. Members of the NAS team ...

WASHINGTON -- The plan for broad use of X-ray body scanners to detect bombs or weapons under airline passengers' clothes has rekindled a debate about the safety of delivering small doses of radiation ...

It looks like Sea-Tac and other U.S. airports with controversial “backscatter’’ body scanners at security checkpoints will be replacing them in coming months. Passenger rights groups have been pushing ...

Radiation from airport body scanners penetrates organs beneath the skin but at low doses that meet national standards, according to a study by Marquette University’s Department of Biomedical ...

Ben Krasnow is one of those people no one has a bad opinion of. He’s part of the team at Verily (Google’s Life Science Alphabit), where he’s busy curing cancer. He co-founded Valve’s hardware division ...

At Logan International Airport, and at 99 more of the nation's busiest airports, X-ray body scanners are now part of the modern reality of flying.But in Europe, X-ray body scanners, also known as ...

The radiation risk from full-body scanners used to improve airport security is low and unlikely to raise an individual's risk of cancer, U.S. experts said on Wednesday. Airports in Britain, the ...