The ruling, handed down Friday, came after a group of parents challenged a Maryland school system's refusal to let parents ...

On my seven-month-old baby’s bookshelf sits a brightly illustrated children’s book about Marie Curie. Its pages celebrate her love of science, her marriage to physicist Pierre Curie, and her ...

TV personality Joe Baggs has teamed up with end of life charity Marie Curie and Superdrug to launch ‘The Art of Care’ – a giant 3D artwork of a Marie Curie Healthcare Assistant caring for a ...

In 1912, Marie Curie – the first female professor at the University of Paris, first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, and first person to be awarded two Nobels – decided to disappear for a ...

Many of Curie's clothing, furniture, and books, especially lab instruments, remain very radioactive after more than 100 years. Objects like her laboratory notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes ...

Polish-born physicist Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) her husband, French chemist Pierre Curie and their daughter, Irene, in the garden of their French home in 1902. Photo / Getty Images Book review ...

Marie and Pierre Curie discovered polonium and radium, two radioactive elements. The Curies developed radiation therapy for cancer, and the Institut Curie has kept up the multidisciplinary tracks of ...

Dava Sobel, preeminent science writer, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author, joins John Williams to discuss the new book, “ The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow ...

Curie dominates in this book, just as she has in public consciousness ever since, despite Sobel's best efforts. The subtitle of the book is How The Glow Of Radium Lit A Path For Women In Science.

Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, Curie also led the way for many other female pioneers of science.

Even now nearly a century after her death Marie Curie remains the only female scientists most people can name. Dava Sobel writes that in her new book \“The Elements of Marie Curie.\” Which is ...

This last facet of her story is at the core of Dava Sobel’s new book, The Elements of Marie Curie, which follows 2016’s The Glass Universe, on the early female astronomers of Harvard Observatory.