A Henry County, Missouri school canceled classes Thursday and Friday. Now it's working to figure out when students can return ...

One of the chief values of this publication is that it gives a summary of the results of radium treatment of cancer in various parts of the body. The results are given as survival rates ...

Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” connected disappearing populations of bald eagles to the presence of the pesticide DDT in the birds’ food chain. Because bald eagles are apex predators, their dose of ...

It is believed that the lexicographers at Oxford were working on the fascicle ‘R’ to ‘Reactive’ at the time when the Curies coined the term “radium” for the element that they had newly ...

Brian Haycraft, a plumber in Wenona, called the water quality “dangerous,” and believes it is damaging copper water pipes. Haycraft also said the city has been having issues for a year. We reached out ...

Compared to samples collected upstream of the facility, the researchers found elevated levels of the radioactive element radium in the animals’ soft tissue, their hard shells and the streambed ...