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 — ...

Caltech researchers have created cold molecules containing the radioactive element radium for the first ...

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 ...

Marie Curie’s story is often told through her Nobel Prizes, her discoveries, and the eerie glow of radium in a darkened lab. But there’s a quieter, almost unbelievable detail that tends to get ...

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 ...

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 ...

They called it “lip pointing.” It was how the dial painters at United States Radium Corp. kept their paintbrushes from fraying between strokes. The employees, mostly young women, would stick the end ...

As a little girl growing up in post-World War I Germany, Joe Dunthorne’s grandmother was among the many who brushed their teeth with irradiated toothpaste. Doramad, his grandmother’s family brand of ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Modern life have you feeling frazzled? Flagging a bit as you rush through your day? Maybe you’re one of the millions of consumers who lean on ...

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 ...

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 ...