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 ...

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 ...

Calculations by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley estimate that the cancer risk associated with one type of airport security ...

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 ...

Before they were removed following an outcry over privacy, backscatter X-ray security scanners at airports also raised worries among some travelers and scientists about exposure to potentially harmful ...

See-through technology that stirred concerns about privacy of passengers being scanned at airports has been adapted for less- sensitive use south of Tucson by the U.S. Border Patrol. The agency is ...

If you're pregnant and worried about the safety of those full-body scanners at the airport, you can rest easy. These scanners, which first emerged in US airports after the attempted terrorist attack ...

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 ...

Amid concerns regarding terrorists targeting airliners using weapons less detectable by traditional means, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ramping up deployment of whole body ...

The machines, pulled in 2013, expose travelers and airport workers to a dose of radiation well within acceptable limits — a factor of 10 below... Before they were removed following an outcry over ...

If you've flown recently, you may have seen them: new scanning booths that produce full-body images of airline passengers in order to detect hidden weapons, liquids, narcotics and other contraband.