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In Tuesday’s episode of National Geographic’s Genius, we meet Marie Curie, the brilliant female scientist at the turn of the century who discovered, among other things, the element radium. The problem ...

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It may be 2017, but working women are still facing many of the same issues that have been plaguing them for decades: sexism, unequal pay, misogyny, sexual harassment, and more. And while these issues ...

Targeted alpha therapy can destroy cancerous cells without harming healthy cells. It's especially useful for treating metastasized cancers. The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science's Isotope ...

Marie Curie holds a special place in Nobel Prize history—not only the first woman to win the prize, but also one of very few people to have been awarded a second. Both were connected with the element ...

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They called it the shed, though it was more of a dilapidated hangar. A former anatomy theater, it housed old pinewood tables, a cast-iron stove and a blackboard—all under a high ceiling that leaked.

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