Radium with everything. ... The story of radium mirrors that of radiation itself – a double-edged sword, with great benefits that always needs to be balanced against the potential for massive harm.

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

I shall take radium as an example of a typical radio- element, but it must be borne in mind that most of the other active substances possess similar radioactive properties. Radium emits three ...

This video chronicles the fascinating restoration of a rare and radioactive WW2-era German military watch, the Helma AS1130, worn by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The watch, known for its ...

The gloomy picture of radium poisoning is darkened further by the fact that, to date, no successful method has been developed for removing significant quantities of radium from the body once it ...

The ‘radium girls’ painted clock dials to make them glow in the dark. For some, the experience was fatal. Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois ...

In the 1930s, a German-Jewish chemist resettled his family in neutral Turkey. But his work on radioactive materials and poison gas was still of interest to the Nazi regime.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted preliminary approval for the use of a material that contains radioactive radium in a Florida road project that’s being described as a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted preliminary approval for the use of a material that contains radioactive radium in a Florida road project that’s being described as a ...