Over a hundred years on, Marie Curie’s work still powers nuclear medicine, fuels global research, and stands as a data point in the long fight for equity in science. November 7 marks the birthday of ...

More than a century after her discoveries, Marie Curie's work still fuels nuclear science, medical imaging, and the global... The post Marie Curie's story proves courage can change the world appeared ...

The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision ...

There are hot spring resorts called “rajiumu” (radium) onsen in Japan. It is believed that people who bathe in them can raise ...

Remarkably, even though radioactivity is a threat to life, scientists can control and use it to diagnose and treat diseases – ...

École St Mary High School invites the community to Upstage Productions’ two-act play, “ Radium Girls “. In 1926, radium was a ...

Beneath a smog-choked sky, the once-glistening waters of Gabes in southern Tunisia run dark with rust-coloured streaks. Trees ...

Following PCFA's submission on behalf of the prostate cancer community, we are pleased to share the news that during the November meeting of the ...

Those ruins tell a fascinating story about the Radium Springs Garden's past. In the early 20th century, tests of the spring's water found that it contained the radioactive element radium (hence the ...

The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

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