1896: Radioactivity is discovered accidentally by French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel. Becquerel was investigating German colleague Wilhelm Roentgen's work on phosphorescence in uranium salts ...

More than a century after her discoveries, Marie Curie's work still fuels nuclear science, medical imaging, and the global... The post Marie Curie's story proves courage can change the world appeared ...

Over a hundred years on, Marie Curie’s work still powers nuclear medicine, fuels global research, and stands as a data point in the long fight for equity in science. November 7 marks the birthday of ...

Marie Curie is a name that needs no introduction. A name synonymous with advances in sciences, she was particularly involved in the branch of radioactivity. Marie, in fact, is the only woman so far to ...

Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another. In the process, those elements tend to emit deadly forms of ...

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