Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win the award twice. Marie's efforts, with help from husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium ...

In the spring of 1905, a tempestuous Italian medium named Eusapia Palladino arrived in Paris, ready to prove that she was able to summon the spirits of the dead. She conducted more than 40 séances for ...

The world has waited long for a first-hand account of the life and work of Pierre Curie and his distinguished collaborator and widow, Marie Sklodowska Curie. Fortunately this greatest and most modest ...

With my first glance at "Radioactive" — the physical book — I was enchanted. Its textured cover, luminescent colors and oversize dimensions generated a feeling that I hadn't felt since I was a child: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image released by Amazon shows Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in a scene from "Radioactive." (Amazon via AP) This image ...

LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UPI) --Sam Riley and Rosamund Pike play Nobel Prize-winning scientists Pierre and Marie Curie in the new film Radioactive. Riley said that to be convincing in presenting ...

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 ...