As we near the end of Women’s History Month, a time designated to commemorate the role of women in history, we will explore the life of a woman who made tremendous and long-lasting scientific ...

Marie Curie’s life was marked by two Nobel Prizes, a love rooted in science, and a constant struggle against sexism in ...

Pioneering physicist and chemist born in Warsaw, she carried out groundbreaking research on radioactivity and discovered new elements.

On this day, chemists discovered a substance 900 times more radioactive than uranium. Their research led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs and worldwide fame — but it would also kill one of them.

(via SciShow) There's a radioactivity museum in Paris, in Marie Curie's lab. It's still got radiation in there. But Andra has removed the worst of it.

On a nuclear test site in the New Mexico desert, mannequins blaze and melt down like hyperactive candles. In the skies above Hiroshima, American pilots prepare to drop an atomic bomb on the unknowing ...

Marie Curie is the most famous woman in the history of science. She coined the term “radioactivity” and traveled the world to ...

In Paris, not far from the Panthéon, is a crooked little byway once called the Rue des Postes. From that byway last week came two words in a combination new to physicists the world over: artificial ...

Marie and Pierre in the lab, c. 1904. Source: Unknown author/Wikimedia Commons Marie Curie is one of the greatest scientists in history—the first woman to be appointed a professor at the University of ...

It is a good bet that if most scientists and engineers were honest, they would most like to leave something behind that future generations would remember. While Marie Curie met that standard — she was ...