A2: Business

The Detroit News profiles the Ann Arbor firm Advanced Photonix Inc., which is developing new scanning technology that could be used in the future for airport security. The article quotes Richard Kurtz, API’s CEO: “With terahertz technology, we can take a more general outline of the subject and just look for metal or explosives in the chemical signatures. A lot of the research is out of the way, so the next phase will be development and engineering.” [Source]