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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and screening solutions, today announces the sale of its 2,000 th HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX, an industry-leading 3D X-ray scanner with high-resolution 3D ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...