President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry concluded on ...

George Kay’s miniseries Litvinenko follows the investigating officers and their proceeding regarding the 2006 poisoning of the defected Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210.

What is Marie Curie Famous for? Explore her life, biography, and the legacy of her discoveries: radium and polonium.

FALLON -- Two dairy farmers have dumped milk after the discovery of radioactive polonium-210 in 25 drinking water wells around Fallon, 60 miles east of Reno. Officials from Sorensen's Dairy and Oasis ...

Robert Siegel talks with John Emsley, author of The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison, about the poisoning of Russian-spy-turned-Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko died last ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of a Russian forensics agency said on Tuesday that samples from the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had revealed no traces of radioactive polonium, a Russian news ...

Among the few authorized uses of polonium 210 is an industrial application: removing static. A tiny amount of the radioactive compound is seated in a device attached to steel machinery spinning ...

Following the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, British authorities are following a trail of radioactive contamination. Litvinenko died from the effects of absorbing a rare ...

In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest radioactive substances known to man. The promotion was real — for 15 cents ...

LONDON, Jan. 11 -- British authorities are working with officials from 48 countries to evaluate about 450 people who were in London around Nov. 1 and fear they might have been exposed to the ...

PARIS -- French scientists looking into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have dismissed poisoning by radioactive polonium, his widow announced Tuesday. The results contradict earlier ...

On President Eisenhower’s desk stood a domed metal gadget about half the size of a derby hat. Current flowing from it spun a small propeller. Named SNAP III (for System for Nuclear Auxiliary Power), ...