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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft ...

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M. HONORÉ is a member of the staff of L'Illustration, and his book is virtually an enlarged edition of a series of articles which he contributed to that journal. It therefore gives an attractive and ...

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The ...

The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

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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 ...