Actineer, a joint venture between Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM), today ...

Marie Curie's notebooks remain radioactive more than a century later because they were contaminated with radium-226, an ...

For the first time in history, scientists have measured radium's bonding interactions with oxygen atoms in an organic molecule. Scientists have not measured this bonding before because radium-226 is ...

Radium today has uses in radiation detectors, instrument calibration and cancer therapy. In the past it has been used for self-luminescent paint as well as a large amount of quack medicine. Like other ...

NEW ORLEANS — You may be hearing a lot about the chemical Radium in recent weeks because of the ongoing cleanup in Gert Town. But what exactly is it? We talked with chemist Matt Hillyer to get the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The half-life of radium-226, the toxic isotope touted as a miracle cure-all in the early 20th century and used in phosphorescent ...