What is Marie Curie Famous for? Explore her life, biography, and the legacy of her discoveries: radium and polonium.

Women's intellectual history is rich in ironies, but this is a particularly strange one: In Paris, at the turn of the 20th century, a visionary Polish scientist had just discovered a peculiar new ...

Via myriad fantastical situations boasting magic, supernatural creatures, and time travel, 20 chilling short stories and poems by authors including Sarah Beth Durst, Jonathan Maberry, Jo Whittemore, ...

Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, a disease brought on, in her case, by exposure to a large amount of radiation from both her laboratory work and from her work running field x-ray machines during ...

Marie Curie, born more than 150 years ago, is still the only woman scientist many people can name. The double Nobel Prize winner is most famous for her discovery of radioactivity and of the ...

Over a hundred years on, Marie Curie’s work still powers nuclear medicine, fuels global research, and stands as a data point ...

The demolition of Marie Curie’s Paris lab has been temporarily suspended as campaigners fight to get the building marked as a historic monument. The Nobel prize-winning scientist’s lab, located at ...

Fake it until you make is true for children, too, it turns out: Young girls playing the role of a successful female scientist, like Marie Curie, persist longer at a challenging science game. The new ...