Though Marie Curie's discovery of radium broke barriers and advanced science, it wasn't all positive. In fact, it ultimately led to her undoing.
Symmetry is not just a word; it is a concept like harmony. It not only attracts our visual sense; it also plays a major role in our sense of beauty.
New atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...
Far from insisting — as Pierre Curie had done for his wife and co-worker Marie — that the prize should be shared with Meitner, he allowed a narrative to develop that she had been his assistant ...
UNLIKE in the West, women working in the field of nuclear science and energy in the Philippines stand shoulder to shoulder ...
This is, of course, a reference to radium, an element that the scientist discovered with her husband, Pierre Curie, with whom she shares one of her two Nobel Prizes (she was the first person ever ...
Here we look at some of Poland's most famous nationals -- from years gone by to the present day. Many have influenced a world far beyond their country's boundary. Nicolaus Coperni ...
Innovation has always been a double-edged sword. While some inventions change the world for the better, others end up taking ...
Though from different periods of time and backgrounds, these women have all demonstrated strength and perseverance, which ...