Flying isn’t always fun: long lines, smelly toilets, bad food, fussy babies and confined spaces. When the Transportation Security Administration introduced full-body scanners at security checkpoints ...

If airport security line sometimes feel like they take forever, travelers fuming over the delays should know that screeners taking their time may actually be most effective at the security gate, ...

WASHINGTON (WNEW) – Teflon tape, molded plastic explosives and handguns are all concealment tricks that a group of researchers were able to pull off on the Rapiscan Secure 1000 machines previously ...

The Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners failed to detect a number of potential weapons, including knives, guns and explosives, according to a study released this week. The ...

The head of the Transportation Security Administration has backed off a public commitment to conduct a new independent study of X-ray body scanners used at airport security lanes around the country.

Full-body scanners used for security screening at the nation’s airports do not expose passengers to dangerous levels of radiation, according to a new independent analysis of the devices. The study by ...

Following months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the health effects of the agency’s X-ray ...