Radium was seen as a miracle product, and even used in lipsticks: only later was it realised that it was highly dangerous - Illustration by Ricardo Rey For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others ...
Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...
"Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium" by Lucy Jane Santos; Pegasus Books (336, $27.99) Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits. Marie and Pierre ...
Scientists need a better understanding of the chemistry of radium to be able to target the isotope radium-223 (Ra-223) to cancer cells. Once delivered, Ra-223 can destroy those cells with alpha ...
An IAEA expert mission was deployed to Suva, Fiji, to support the recovery and transportation of radium-226 to the USA, where the sources will be used as a feedstock to produce actinium-225, an ...
Heavy Rare Earths’ rock chip sampling has found consistent, high-grade scandium and yttrium along Radium Hill structural corridor. ... Read More The post Scandium and yttrium discovery elevates HRE’s ...