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 ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

A New Science. The beginnings. The setting ; Rays and radiation ; Becquerel's discovery -- The Curies. Maria Skłodowska ; A consequential meeting ; New elements! -- Rutherford, Soddy, particles, and ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them. When you purchase through links on our ...

Borne on the winds that sweep out of Russia, radioactive dust from the Soviet Union’s latest super H-bomb (TIME, Dec. 5) descended on its neighbors. The Dutch army reported a “high content of ...