Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when ...

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 ...

Simon Cherry is the co-creator of the world’s first total-body positron emission tomography, or PET, scanner. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) If he’d pursued his first love, Simon Cherry might be ...

Remember all the outrage when the TSA began using full-body scanners at the airport? Well, now they’re quietly pulling the plug. Here’s the story behind the story: Full-body scanners became big news ...

President Obama's push to deploy body-imaging scanners at airports will cost U.S. taxpayers roughly $3 billion over eight years, congressional investigators report, but it is unclear whether the ...

The Department of Correction has agreed to pause the introduction of electronic body scanners in state prisons after state officials charged with overseeing the well-being of incarcerated individuals ...