Body scanners have been a part of getting through airports for decades now, but they have long raised concerns about the privacy of those who go through.

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 ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when ...

As the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) pushes forward with its plan to place full-body scanners in all American airports, experts in the scientific community are raising serious concerns ...

The Department of Correction has agreed to pause the introduction of electronic body scanners in state prisons after state officials charged with overseeing the well-being of incarcerated individuals ...

Simon Cherry is the co-creator of the world’s first total-body positron emission tomography, or PET, scanner. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) If he’d pursued his first love, Simon Cherry might be ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kalamazoo County officials voted to spend nearly $200,000 on a full-body scanner to detect illegal substances on incoming inmates, and inside their bodies. Commissioners voted 6-3 on ...