FDA sidesteps safety concerns over TSA body scanners: Some professors recently expressed concern about the safety of the TSA’s new X-ray body scanners. The FDA wrote an eight-page response; unfortunately, it didn’t address many of the key issues.

Jaz drives, spiral notebooks, and SCSI: how we lose scientific data: In this multipart series we take a look at why a simple principle—scientific data should be preserved and shared—turns out to be so hard to follow in the real world. Once you decide which data to keep, saving it all in a stable format—much less sharing it with the scientific community—isn’t as simple as it seems.

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Week in science: red giants, body scanners, and Jaz drives