Cover Image: A common scene at a fictional airport employing passenger screening using a backscatter X-ray machine. Artist: Erik Svedberg. Image created by ray tracing, where computational rays of ...

Although the machines have already been pulled from U.S. airports, the results of a report commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has found that the amount of ...

CHICAGO — Just in time for holiday travel, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is receiving a new type of body scanner that should help speed up the lines at security checkpoints and that displays ...

There's nothing as simultaneously reassuring and infuriating as modern airport security. Anyone who's done even a little traveling knows the feeling of arriving at the airport only to be greeted by a ...

Airport X-ray machines are exempt from the state radiation control inspections they would receive if installed at a local courthouse or in a non-federal office building. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

The Transportation Security Administration will pull 174 full-body scanners from airports in the coming year, but not because of safety reasons or privacy invasion. The scanner manufacturer couldn’t ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CHICAGO • Just in time for holiday travel, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is receiving a new type of body scanner that ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The federal government is quietly removing full-body X-ray scanners from seven major airports and replacing them with a different type of machine that produces a cartoon-like outline ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - 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 ...