Tuesday night’s episode of National Geographic’s sometimes sexy show Genius kicks off with a flashback to a turn of the century laboratory. A young woman tinkers with some laboratory equipment; a ...

Marie Curie was a scientist whose work changed the way people thought about radioactivity and led to new findings in chemistry and physics. She was born in Poland in 1867 and went to college in France ...

What's the half-life of a movie called "Radioactive?" That is, how long can it sit on a shelf before it loses its kick? Well, the makers of a Madame Curie biopic with that title hoped it would be on ...

Marie Skłodowska Curie pursued scientific knowledge and achievement with an obsessive passion, dragging the world into the future as she continued to break barriers for women -- even after death. Born ...

Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win the award twice. Marie’s efforts, with help from husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium ...

They called it the shed, though it was more of a dilapidated hangar. A former anatomy theater, it housed old pinewood tables, a cast-iron stove and a blackboard—all under a high ceiling that leaked.

It is of great interest to read between the lines of history-making science. We learn, for example, that "only the great [Ernest] Rutherford knew how to deal with Marie, because he was not awed by her ...