Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Curie much preferred her "beautiful radium." Polonium was much too unstable and uninteresting, finding its place helping in the dull task of... Polonium-210 is back in the spotlight. The radioisotope ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

Writers dominate the list of Polish Nobel Prize winners: so far they have won 4 prizes, most recently in 1996. However, Poland has experienced considerable success in other fields, but counting the ...

It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie's discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired several tons of pitchblende, a black ore, and the ...

I first wrote about Yasser Arafat and polonium-210 this summer when traces of the radioactive element were found in the personal effects of the dead former Palestinian leader. As his body was exhumed ...

It is a naturally occurring radioactive material that emits highly hazardous alpha (positively charged) particles. It was first discovered by Marie Curie at the end of the 19th century. There are very ...

As poisons go, polonium-210 is a bit of a mixed bag. Is it effective? Absolutely. If you eat a piece of polonium-210 the size of a grain of salt, it’ll probably be enough to kill the average adult.

Some of the fascinating things we did with the radioactive element, including using it as a "wonderful" nightlight, since it "glows with a weird light in a dark room." Radium was discovered by Marie ...