Even in death, Marie Curie’s body held a secret: it remained radioactive, requiring a special lead-lined coffin for burial.

Dava Sobel is the author of the forthcoming “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” In the century-plus history of the Nobel Prizes, women have ...

Marie Curie: Mentor to Women or Martyr to Science? In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab. Share full article ...

King Charles appeared in high spirits during a lively reception at Campbeltown Town Hall as part of his ongoing Holyrood Week engagements in Scotland.Among the guests he met was Susan Campbell ...

You won’t find out in the new French film “Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge,” a curiously downbeat, rather cold work without much passion or science that portrays a woman whose life was ...

The inspiring story of the famous female scientist who discovered radium and radioactivity. Find out more with BBC Bitesize KS1 History.

A school which took at least 40 pupils out of lessons for refusing to remove a Marie Curie symbol from their blazers lifts its ban on charity badges.

The demolition of a Paris laboratory used by Nobel winner Marie Curie has been suspended after an intervention from France’s minister of culture.

Marie Curie, known as the "mother of modern physics," died from aplastic anemia, a rare condition linked to high levels of exposure to her famed discoveries, the radioactive elements polonium and ...

Marie Curie "wasn't always very nice", said Marjane Satrapi of the hero of her new film, "Radioactive".

Film Review: ‘Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge’ Sincere if stylistically inconsistent, Marie Noelle's biopic of the pioneering female physicist focuses heavily on chemistry of another sort.