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 ...

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.

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 ...

(AP) – Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by ...

Sure, airport body scanners are looking for threats, but here’s what else these security devices might reveal in the process ...

The danger from radiation exposure for any given person walking through a backscatter X-ray machine at an airport is low, but there’s controversy over whether the aggregate risk to the traveling ...

Airport scanners are an 'extremely low' source of radiation exposure that poses virtually no health risk, not even to frequent air travellers, say US researchers. The study may help ease fears of ...

If you've ever traveled by air, you've surely experienced airport security. Before boarding, your luggage is passed through ...

CHICAGO — Just in time for holiday travel, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is receiving a new type of body scanner that should help speed up the lines at security checkpoints and that displays ...

The new “strip search” scanning machines at airport security checkpoints are increasingly causing furor over issues of privacy, decency and health. Over the weekend, a passenger in San Diego, software ...