Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Theatre TSC opens its first show of the season "Radium Girls," at Turner Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Show times are Oct.

"Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium" by Lucy Jane Santos; Pegasus Books (336, $27.99) Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits. Marie and Pierre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What began as a community book club discussion grew into a citywide effort to honor five women whose workplace poisoning case ...

Illustration of the structure of the radium compound characterized in this research. Single crystal X-ray diffraction provided detailed information on the bonding of radium in an organic molecule for ...

Radium, the most widely publicized of earth’s 92 elements, is now being advertised for sale in the back pages of metallurgical journals. Reason: despite 40 years of hullabaloo, man has found very few ...