The two were invariably associated in the pitchblende from which the Curies extracted radium. Dr. Bertram B. Boltwood, of Yale University, has made tests with various ores that lead him to think ...

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. The pay was ...

CHRIS PACKHAM: Aboard a train bound for Paris sits a woman. Such was her passion for science, that when she learnt Poland’s universities didn’t accept women, she travelled across Europe to ...