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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This isn’t the first time someone managed to sneak by a weapon past a TSA Rapiscan full-body X-ray scanner, but Wired reports that scientists have taken the procedure to a new level and have come up ...