Ore mined in the Northwest Territories was transported to Port Hope, Ont., then used to develop the bombs that were dropped ...

Exposure to high levels of radium can result in adverse health conditions like anemia, cataracts, fractured teeth, cancer (especially bone cancer) and death, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” connected disappearing populations of bald eagles to the presence of the pesticide DDT in the ...

Southampton Arts Center is honored to welcome acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dava Sobel for a captivating ...

Dava Sobel is one of the world’s most successful, and accessible, science writers. Known for 1995’s best-selling Longitude, ...

Dava Sobel’s book reveals how Marie Curie nurtured and encouraged dozens of women throughout her incredible career.

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper from the tiny town of Seadrift, took on a $250 billion Taiwanese chemical company, Formosa Plastics Corp., and won a $50 million trust fund, the largest ...

A breakthrough scientific discovery, the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom and the birthday of the highest-grossing actor of all time.

A few days before the Christmas of 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word 'radium' in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had brought laboriously to light in their ...

Kirillov was the commander of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, and is thought to be the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia since the country invaded ...

Dangerously high levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene continue to plague Channelview, Texas, despite warnings from state regulators that began almost 20 years ago. Data collected during ...