Soon, he fell violently ill - but instead of stopping, he continued drinking the substance as he continued to lose weight, ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...

A good deal of attention is now being given to the probable origin of radium. Whether the element, while still intermingled with other substances in the ores in which it is found, undergoes change ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...

In the early 20th century, the world went ‘raving mad on the subject of radium’, according to George Bernard Shaw. The newly ...

Radium, the Curies found ... in physics), but soon the element would appear in makeup, toothpaste and health drinks—a cure-all in the public imagination. In 1903 Marie and Pierre seemed to ...

Evergy officials, Henry County commissioners and Missouri state leaders hosted a town hall on Monday night to address ...

With the polonium extracted, there was clearly something far more radioactive left behind and soon they had isolated the much more important element radium in December 1898. Radium was so named as it ...

As part of an experiment with x-rays in 1909, Rutherford was shooting a beam of alpha particles (or alpha rays, emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an ...

One of the chief values of this publication is that it gives a summary of the results of radium treatment of cancer in various parts of the body. The results are given as survival rates ...