Airport 3D scanners may rip your DNA to shreds

Terraherz waves, used to make x-ray type machines that can look through clothes and walls and more are also being deployed in airport scanners that look through your clothes. It turns out that under certain circumstances, they can resonate with your DNA, thus destroying it. Lovely.

Slashdot Science Story | How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA.

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