IT is a journalist’s job to p**s people off – so when Russia put me on a wanted list, I knew I had done something right. The ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became a status symbol ...

Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation, the emission of positrons does not cease immediately, when the active ...

But that hasn’t stopped us from being fascinated by intelligence tests that attempt to assign a numerical value to how smart ...

What is a better day than Valentine’s Day to remember and celebrate the great love stories our world has witnessed? From the ...

Oxygen, of course, is a gas, polonium a metal, and the in-between elements, sulfur, selenium and tellurium, are all solids that show increasing metallic properties. In fact, tellurium (Te), which ...

Who nominates people for the Nobel Peace Prize? It's one of the five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and inventor.

From the first woman to win a Nobel Prize to the discoverer of jumping genes, here are some of the women who have made major ...

Katz reiterates US President Donald Trump's statements, adding that the new phase of the Gaza war would be different in intensity and would not end without defeating Hamas and freeing all hostages ...

There was a time when people didn't think that women were clever enough to work in science. We know today this is nonsense, but not then. One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ...

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