Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like radium and polonium, the constantly transmuting elements she added to the periodic table, there were ...

Chris Packham explains how Marie Curie’s discovery of polonium and radium changed atomic theory and how her study of radioactivity helped doctors use X-rays to save thousands of lives.

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 ...

Marie Curie’s scientific journey truly began when she met and married Pierre Curie, a fellow physicist. The couple’s collaborative work led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium, ...

The element is there and I've got to find it! We are sure!' After working through tonnes of the pitchblende slag, the Curies identified two new elements in the remaining material - polonium and radium ...

A cat named after the brilliant Polish chemist Marie Curie is looking for her forever family in Texas. Curie, the actual ...

First woman and only double Nobel laureate, winning in physics (1903) for radioactivity and chemistry (1911) for discovering radium and polonium, despite facing significant obstacles in a male ...

She won another Nobel in 1911, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of radium and polonium. Curie is the only person to have won two different science categories. How many Nobel Prizes are there?

Pitchblende does not just contain actinium (the topic of this podcast), it also contains radium, radon and polonium; the latter, if we are to believe recent news reports, the Russian assassin's toxin ...

Thursday marks the anniversary of the birth of Polish Nobel Prize-winning scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie, an inspiring ...

Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out pioneering research into radioactivity. Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw on 7 November 1867 ...