As we near the end of Women’s History Month, a time designated to commemorate the role of women in history, we will explore the life of a woman who made tremendous and long-lasting scientific ...

Pioneering physicist and chemist born in Warsaw, she carried out groundbreaking research on radioactivity and discovered new elements.

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 ...

(via SciShow) There's a radioactivity museum in Paris, in Marie Curie's lab. It's still got radiation in there. But Andra has removed the worst of it.

Study radioactivity, its discovery by Henri Becquerel, key facts, and modern uses. Learn how radioactivity supports science ...

Marie and Pierre Curie’s partnership transformed science, leading to the discovery of polonium and radium and pioneering the study of radioactivity. Their work not only earned them Nobel Prizes but ...

On a nuclear test site in the New Mexico desert, mannequins blaze and melt down like hyperactive candles. In the skies above Hiroshima, American pilots prepare to drop an atomic bomb on the unknowing ...

Marie Curie is the most famous woman in the history of science. She coined the term “radioactivity” and traveled the world to ...

Hair oil spiked with radioactive elements seems like an obviously bad idea to us now. But in the decades right after ...

In Paris, not far from the Panthéon, is a crooked little byway once called the Rue des Postes. From that byway last week came two words in a combination new to physicists the world over: artificial ...