Marie Curie’s story is often told through her Nobel Prizes, her discoveries, and the eerie glow of radium in a darkened lab. But there’s a quieter, almost unbelievable detail that tends to get ...

On a nuclear test site in the New Mexico desert, mannequins blaze and melt down like hyperactive candles. In the skies above Hiroshima, American pilots prepare to drop an atomic bomb on the unknowing ...

Study radioactivity, its discovery by Henri Becquerel, key facts, and modern uses. Learn how radioactivity supports science ...

When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements radium and polonium, coined the term “radio-active” and won the Nobel Prize—twice.

People often say that science is a disciplined search for the truth that is based on evidence, observation, and reasoning.

Quote of the Day by Marie Curie: “I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from ...