When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies’ work ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Today marks the 150 th birthday of the most famous woman in science, Marie Curie, ...

The demolition of Marie Curie’s Paris lab has been temporarily suspended as campaigners fight to get the building marked as a historic monument. The Nobel prize-winning scientist’s lab, located at ...

The planned demolition of a Paris laboratory used by pioneering scientist Marie Curie has been suspended after an intervention from France’s minister of culture. The Pavillon des Sources, in central ...

Marie Curie’s lab is still radioactive, and France has to clean it up. 16 cool inventions getting us off fossil fuels and on green energy. 101 companies who are working to reduce their carbon ...

In 1933 nuclear physicist Marie Curie had outgrown her lab in the Latin Quarter in central Paris. To give her the space needed for the messy task of extracting radioactive elements such as radium from ...