Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

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Neighbors in a Douglas County community are worried about the safety of their drinking water. It's happening in Perry Park, an unincorporated community west of Larkspur, which is home to natural red ...

Gone are the days when the only way to make butter seem even healthier was to name it after a radioactive element. Beginning in the 1910s, the girls instructed to put radium in their mouths didn't bat ...

In our quest for health and longevity, we’re always looking for surefire shortcuts and miracle cures — whether through rigorously tested science or the fast-and-loose recommendations of an alternative ...

Scientific discovery can be achingly slow, but it was moving swiftly in the 1890s. X-rays had been discovered in Germany just a few days before Christmas in 1895. Several months later, while ...

In 1916, dial painting was the trendy new profession for young American and Canadian women; it was artistic and well-paid. The women were paid up to three times the amount they’d be earning at other ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...

Joey King and Abby Quinn play young women working under dangerous conditions in a 1920s radium factory in Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler's drama 'Radium Girls.' By Frank Scheck You can feel the ...

As a little girl growing up in post-World War I Germany, Joe Dunthorne’s grandmother was among the many who brushed their teeth with irradiated toothpaste. Doramad, his grandmother’s family brand of ...