In the aftermath of school shootings, theater shootings, and bombings, the question of security screening has become real and important.
How do we balance privacy concerns and rights with the need to screen for potential threats?
A University of Michigan professor is working on that challenge: building a better security detector.
Dr Kamal Sarabondi is a professor of electrical engineering, and he's the director of the Radiation Laboratory at the University of Michigan.
He's gotten funding from the U.S. Department of Defense and is developing a long-range radar technology as a means to detect a concealed object. He explains what it is and how it differs from what we have today.
Listen to the full interview above.