Radium was seen as a miracle product, and even used in lipsticks: only later was it realised that it was highly dangerous - Illustration by Ricardo Rey For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others ...

Scientific discovery can be achingly slow, but it was moving swiftly in the 1890s. X-rays had been discovered in Germany just a few days before Christmas in 1895. Several months later, while ...

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The UK is still dealing with the legacy of radium-painted dials used in World War II, with Dalgety Bay in Fife just one area affected by radium displaced from old waste dumps, writes Stephen Mansell.

IN a recent communication to the Physikalische Zeitschrift (No. 18, September) Paschen has described some experiments which indicate that the γ rays from radium supply a large proportion of the total ...