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I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich has succeeded in visualizing magnetism inside solids with ...
Outcomes of Radium-223 and Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Versus Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancers: The RAVENS Phase II Randomized Trial The following ...
In The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, author Dava Sobel celebrates the many women who came to Paris to work with Marie Curie after she won the ...
In the 1930s, a German-Jewish chemist resettled his family in neutral Turkey. But his work on radioactive materials and poison gas was still of interest to the Nazi regime.
XTI Aerospace, Inc. (NASDAQ: XTIA) ("XTI" or the "Company"), a pioneer in VTOL and powered-lift aircraft solutions, today announced the Q1 completion of its Global Finite Element Model (GFEM) for ...
The Perry Park Water and Sanitation District said Thursday that radium levels in its water were back below acceptable levels after spiking in September.
Marguerite Perey joined Curie's Radium Institute in 1929 and went on to discover the element francium. Three decades later, she became the first woman admitted to the Académie des Sciences ...
Even now nearly a century after her death Marie Curie remains the only female scientists most people can name. Dava Sobel writes that in her new book “The Elements of Marie Curie.” Which is a ...
The ‘radium girls’ painted clock dials to make them glow in the dark. For some, the experience was fatal. Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois ...
Her protégés included Ellen Gleditsch, who determined the half-life of radium, and Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium.