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

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 ...

Before the advent of radium, geologists had not recognized the difficulties presented by the peculiar chemical constitution of the earth's crust. Radium did not create this difficulty, but has ...

CHRIS PACKHAM: Aboard a train bound for Paris sits a woman. Such was her passion for science, that when she learnt Poland’s universities didn’t accept women, she travelled across Europe to ...

A lawsuit filed in Henry County last week alleges that Evergy and other companies are responsible for toxic chemicals and carcinogens around their now defunct power plant near Montrose, Missouri.

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 ...

2. A picocurie is about a trillionth of a gram of radium. According to the Centers for Disease Control, most people are exposed to small amounts of the radioactive element in everyday life ...

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 ...

They discovered a new element that gave off rays of heat and light - they called this radium. They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most ...