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 ...

The reality of airport scanners and the images they have produced over the years, has left people in shock. Making your way ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Smiths Detection has been awarded an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to provide HCVT advanced ...

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 ...

Anthony Butler (left) with his father Phil Butler, and their MARS spectral X-ray scanner. (Courtesy: University of Canterbury) The MARS scanner uses Medipix3 technology developed at CERN to produce ...