Chris Packham explains how Marie Curie’s discovery of polonium and radium changed atomic theory and how her study of ...

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 — ...

Gone are the days when the only way to make butter seem even healthier was to name it after a radioactive element. Beginning in the 1910s, the girls instructed to put radium in their mouths didn't bat ...

It may be 2017, but working women are still facing many of the same issues that have been plaguing them for decades: sexism, unequal pay, misogyny, sexual harassment, and more. And while these issues ...

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 ...

For the first time in history, scientists have measured radium's bonding interactions with oxygen atoms in an organic molecule. Scientists have not measured this bonding before because radium-226 is ...

Joey King and Abby Quinn play young women working under dangerous conditions in a 1920s radium factory in Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler's drama 'Radium Girls.' By Frank Scheck You can feel the ...

Radium, the most widely publicized of earth’s 92 elements, is now being advertised for sale in the back pages of metallurgical journals. Reason: despite 40 years of hullabaloo, man has found very few ...