Inasmuch as the amount of radium discovered at the end of the year was only a ten-thousandth part of that which his and Sir William Ramsay's theories promised, he says: “This practically settles ...

Wickham and Degrais, have created a sensation at the Academy of Medicine by a report on their discovery of a method of removing birthmarks by the action of radium. Such marks have hitherto been ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a unique phase of water called 'plastic ice VII,' which forms under extreme ...

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. The pay was ...

CHRIS PACKHAM: Aboard a train bound for Paris sits a woman. Such was her passion for science, that when she learnt Poland’s universities didn’t accept women, she travelled across Europe to ...

They discovered a new element that gave off rays of heat and light - they called this radium. They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most ...