The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tasked BBN Technologies with coming up with a kilometer-range X-ray scanner.

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just in time for the holiday travel crush, concern is on the rise about radiation exposure from the X-ray full-body scanners that are being deployed around the U.S. in an effort to thwart terrorist ...

A father and son tandem from New Zealand has introduced the first ever colored x-ray scanner adapted from technology used in finding the Higgs boson. Phil (father) and Anthony (son) Butler from ...

We’ll just go ahead and say it right up front: we love teardowns. Ripping into old gear and seeing how engineers solved problems — or didn’t — is endlessly fascinating, even for everyday devices like ...

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 ...

Traveling through airport security as a film photographer is never straightforward. We’ve all heard the warnings that exposing your rolls of film to x-ray scanners could be potentially harmful, but is ...