Amelia “Mollie” Maggia was the first to die. The 19-year-old woman started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. in Orange, NJ, in 1917, and at first reveled in her job. It was lucrative — ...

Marie Skłodowska Curie is often remembered for her two Nobel Prizes. But the details of how she lived and worked tell an even more compelling story. She handled radioactive substances before ...

Caltech researchers have created cold molecules containing the radioactive element radium for the first ...

Asymmetric nuclei are ideal for this purpose because their lopsided shape makes small changes easier to detect. Radium, for ...

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Joey King and Abby Quinn star as young factory workers turned crusaders in this fact-based drama about a little-known case of corporate deception and the women who dared fight back. In the early part ...

How a group of women gave radium as a gift to America Kristen Frederick-Frost, PhD One hundred years ago Marie Curie stood among the rose bushes, the press, and a crowd of White House guests, holding ...

Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits. Marie and Pierre Curie’s pioneering scientific work was 50 years old before America dropped the A-bomb. But ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...

Radium-223 dichloride (radium-223), an alpha emitter, selectively targets bone metastases with alpha particles. We assessed the efficacy and safety of radium-223 as compared with placebo, in addition ...