These aren’t the places you’d expect to glow with danger, yet they do. Some are relics of the Cold War, others are industrial ...

This 1921 ad touts the “power” of radium. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The harmful effects ...

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 ...

Salesmen (and the press) learned that tonics labeled ”radium,” once the most expensive substance on Earth, flew off the shelves. Meanwhile, scientists scrambled to learn what the radioactive material ...

HOUSTON -- Hundreds of water providers around the Gulf Coast region are providing drinking water to customers that contain radioactive contaminants that raise health risks, according to state lab ...

EVERY time an atomic bomb explodes, every time in the atomic age to come an industrial atomic plant erupts, every time we become careless in the disposal of atomic wastes that will accumulate in ...

‘Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials.” I haven’t heard such an Orwellian phrase used by public health officials for years. I’ve got to hand it to the North Dakota Department ...

Research advances the chemistry and improves the purity of isotopes for targeted alpha therapy used in the treatment of cancers. Targeted alpha therapy can destroy cancerous cells without harming ...

When we hear the word “radiation,” a certain image tends to pop up: toxic green barrels, blinking hazard signs, post-apocalyptic sci-fi vibes. But radiation didn’t arrive with nuclear power plants or ...

During the 60s, I remember the government conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down, and cover our heads. We might have survived a bomb blast ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium with her husband, Pierre. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...