Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

"Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium" by Lucy Jane Santos; Pegasus Books (336, $27.99) Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits. Marie and Pierre ...

A New Science. The beginnings. The setting ; Rays and radiation ; Becquerel's discovery -- The Curies. Maria Skłodowska ; A consequential meeting ; New elements! -- Rutherford, Soddy, particles, and ...

94 million gallons of radioactive water and 1,100 tons of uranium waste flooded out of a breached dam into the Rio Puerco. The spill happened just four months after the Three Mile Island nuclear ...

This "Historically Speaking" column is intended to introduce readers to one of Oak Ridge’s prized museums that is not usually included when I mention heritage tourism assets in the “Secret City” of ...

In searching for planets and studying their stars, I’ve had the privilege of using some of the world’s great telescopes. However, our team has recently turned to an even larger system to study the ...

As the journalist whose investigative reporting for the Salt Lake City Deseret News led the way to passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (“Josh Hawley’s Nuclear Meltdown” by Luke Lyman, ...

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 energy drinks to put a little extra pep in your step.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. From the public announcement that Mallinckrodt Chemical Works helped refine uranium for the Manhattan Project to the present, the ...