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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new report by an at-large Houston City Council member criticizes the form of “advanced” or “chemical recycling” of plastics known as pyrolysis, a controversial method city officials are ...