Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

He believed he had found the ultimate health elixir, drinking it daily for years. At first, he felt stronger, more ...

Lauren Gunderson’s play “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” is based on the true friendship of European scientists Marie Curie and ...

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

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

Marie Curie is calling for volunteers in Wrexham to help with this year's Great Daffodil Appeal. The charity is asking residents to give up a few hours of their time this March to distribute ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...

Five people have been indicted over a food poisoning case at a Malaysian restaurant chain in Taiwan that left six diners dead. The fatal incident took place at Polam Kopitiam’s Xinyi branch in ...

ATLANTA - As temperatures plummet and heating systems run at full capacity, health experts are urging caution to prevent carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The invisible, odorless gas is produced ...

Judge Marie Quirke, who has died aged 60, has been hailed as a “visionary” judge who treated all those who came before her in the Dublin District Court with the same level of fairness ...

Marie Curie had died in 1934 from leukemia resulting from her work with radium, and the effects of X-rays and natural radioactivity had been under scrutiny for decades. A “health physics” group to ...