For as long as radiation has been used to treat cancer, the goal has been the same: damage the DNA of cancer cells in order to kill them. Advances in radiation therapy have made the approach more ...

It might be time for Curie’s basketball team to undergo an image makeover. The Condors used to pull off one big upset a season and then fade around playoff time. But a week ago Curie (17-4) knocked ...

Intel has today unveiled Curie, a low-powered module no bigger than a button, as part of its vision to lead in the wearables field. Company CEO Brian Krzanich announced the module, which will be built ...

Marie Curie, known as the "mother of modern physics," died from aplastic anemia, a rare condition linked to high levels of exposure to her famed discoveries, the radioactive elements polonium and ...

Marie Curie, left behind a legacy that still continues to inspire us, as the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies’ work ...

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925, was awarded a then-unprecedented second Nobel Prize 100 years ago this month. AFP / Getty Images When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like radium and polonium, the constantly transmuting elements she added to the periodic table, there were many ...

Madame Curie was part of Marjane Satrapi’s life well before Radioactive came along. In fact, she cannot remember a time when she didn’t know of Marie Curie, the Polish-French scientist who discovered ...

Though its subject might have been known for her scientific expertise, “Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge” takes a decidedly poetic approach to the life of the Nobel-Prize-winning scientist.