Scientists have developed tiny nanocrystal particles made up of isotopes of the elements lanthanum, vanadium, and oxygen.

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

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.

Radium's use in clocks and watches was banned by the UK Radioactive Substances Act of 1960, enforced in 1963. From the Daily Herald Archive, a collection of over three million photographs.

A Michigan judge has delayed his decision on whether a Southeastern Michigan landfill can accept toxic soil from Lewiston’s Storage Site. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox was expected to ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 bedroom of 74-year-old Cherifa Attia smells like burnt rubber. The vast phosphate processing plant beside her home has ...

Uranium is a story of duality. It is a mineral pulled from ancient rocks that can light up a city or wipe one off the map. It’s not just a relic of the Cold War or science fiction. It’s real, it’s ...