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Is It Time For Airport Security To Come Full Circle?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.07.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Eventually, we will come full circle and airport screenings will devolve to where they were before 9/11. It's only a matter of time.

Blade Found In Man's Back 3 Years After Stabbing

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 03.23.2013 | Weird News

Billy McNeely was stabbed three years ago, and ever since, the scar has been itchy and sore. He found out Monday that his pain stemmed from the kni...

Sorry, The TSA Still Wants to Scan You

Christopher Elliott | Posted 03.23.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

The TSA seems to have no intention of turning its back on X-ray scanning technology. It's simply switching to a manufacturer that makes better privacy software.

DISCOVERED: Glowing 'Green Bean' Galaxy With X-Ray Punch

Posted 12.05.2012 | Science

By: Elizabeth Howell Published: 12/05/2012 07:35 AM EST on SPACE.com Astronomers found a green jellybean in space that you'd never want to swall...

New Findings on X-Ray Risks Pose Dilemma for Young Women Prone to Developing Breast Cancer

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 11.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Dr. Elaine Schattner

Last week delivered some disconcerting news for people with a specific, strong inherited high risk for developing cancer.

New Space Telescope Spies High Energy Objects

Posted 07.04.2012 | Science

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 07/03/2012 04:20 PM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's newest space telescope has opened its X-ray eyes to take its first pi...

TODAY: Unusual Mid-Air Launch For Space Agency's Black Hole Hunter

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 08.13.2012 | Science

LOS ANGELES — NASA on Wednesday launched its newest X-ray space telescope on a mission to shine a light on black holes and other hard-to-see obj...

Astronomers Agog Over Black Hole's Strange Activity

Posted 05.02.2012 | Science

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/02/2012 07:13 AM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA space telescope has detected an incredible energy burst from a distan...

Obesity Raises Risk From Common Medical Test, Study Suggests

Posted 04.07.2012 | Science

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 04/06/2012 11:04 AM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily Obese people may be exposed to more ...

The Art Of Medical Imaging

Posted 03.16.2012 | Arts

The exhibition "Seeing Ourselves: The Science and Art of Diagnostic Medical Imaging" shows that art and science are two means of making images. The co...

37 Magnets Make Toddler's Organs Stick Together

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 03.05.2012 | Weird News

A 3-year-old Oregon girl underwent invasive surgery over the weekend after she ate 37 magnets, ripping holes in her lower intestine and stomach. Pa...

The Week In Review: Femme Fatales, Hipsters And Dead Disney Heroines

Posted 02.11.2012 | Arts

This week at HuffPost Arts we saw a different side of a few familiar subjects. Some of our favorite historical figures jumped on the hipster bandwagon...

Giant Black Hole May Be Eating Asteroids At Milky Way's Center

Posted 02.10.2012 | Science

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/09/2012 01:34 PM EST on SPACE.com The gigantic black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be devourin...

Laser Scientists Create Most Powerful Beam Ever

Posted 01.31.2012 | Science

Laser researchers at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are beaming over a pair of research papers they've just published. ...

How Shooting X-Rays At Asparagus Keeps It Fresh

Posted 12.13.2011 | Home

The traditional wisdom on asparagus says that the springtime delight, like high summer sweet corn, is best consumed immaculately fresh. Cookbooks reco...

Stradivarius Violin Recreated By CAT Scan

Posted 12.01.2011 | Arts

Stradivarius, a name associated with excellence in any field, originated from the finely-tuned instruments that the Stradivari family crafted. They ar...

Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough Is Enough

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.17.2012 | Healthy Living
John W. Whitehead

Remember those whole-body, X-ray scanners the government installed in airports across the country and kept insisting were so safe? It turns out that they're not so safe, after all.

Was Goya A Traitor To The Spanish Cause?

Posted 11.21.2011 | Arts

A new painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya has been discovered underneath his portrait of Judge Don Ramón Satué at the Rijksmuseum in Amste...

X-Rays Find 513 U.S.-Bound Migrants Hiding In Trucks

AP | By MANUEL DE LA CRUZ | Posted 07.18.2011 | World

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico -- Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state found 513 migrants on Tuesday inside two trailer trucks bound for the United Sta...

Denver Medical Company Shuts Down Due To Improper Body Scanning

Reuters | Posted 07.10.2011 | Denver

DENVER (Reuters) - A medical imaging company has shuttered its doors in Colorado after regulators ordered it to stop performing X-rays and other s...

"Kidney Stone II: The Sequel"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Jerry Zezima

In what I fear will become a series with more sequels than "Rocky," I had my second kidney stone.

The Weekly Pulse: Michael Pollan's Rules for Thanksgiving, Plus Whole Foods' Healthcare Lies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Media Consortium

Editor's Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we aren't stopping The Audit, The Pulse, The Diaspora, or The Mulch, but we ar...

Full Body Scanners: From Airports to the Streets?

Jay Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jay Stanley

Andy Greenberg at Forbes.com reported yesterday that company representatives told him that backscatter X-rays mounted in vans that can be driven arou...

X-Rays and Children: Know the Limits

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Helene Pavlov, M.D.

As the need for orthopedic imaging of children rises during summer months due to increased physical activities,parents need to better understand safety guidelines for X-rays.

DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....