"The Half-Life of Marie Curie," the New Mexico Actors Lab's final production of the season, runs through December 7.

Scientists studying anticancer drugs and the organization of anthills were among those recognized this week in the European Union's first “Marie Curie Excellence Awards,” which saw five researchers ...

Laurie Roberts and Stela Burdt perform at the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro, Minnesota in "The Half-Life of Marie Curie," which shows from April 5 to July 5, 2025.

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the discoverer of radium and polonium, Marie Curie is one of scientific history’s pioneers. Yet as playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” ...

Dava Sobel is the author of the forthcoming “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” In the century-plus history of the Nobel Prizes, women have received ...

Today we call them 'trolls' but in 1911, ground-breaking physicist Albert Einstein coined a different term for relentless critics: 'reptiles.' In a newly unearthed letter he wrote to fellow-physicist ...

The extent of coverage of a biographical dictionary is not trivial but economic—for it is costly to pursue and include minor figures— and quite political—for one does not have to be a historian to ...

National Cancer Awareness Day 2025 emphasises early detection, prevention, and awareness to reduce India’s growing cancer burden and improve survival rates.

We open on a young, naive Marie, off to the Sorbonne to become the first female scientist to study there (no explanation is given as to how she came by this extraordinary opportunity). On the train to ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...