Swiss scientists say they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with polonium. The deadly radioactive element first hit the headlines when it was used to kill ...

Smokers are exposed to more polonium than nonsmokers because it's in tobacco Expert: Radiation poisoning from polonium-210 looks like the end stage of cancer Whether a radioactive substance called ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Polonium is used in very small quantities in some industrial applications Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in ...

I first wrote about Yasser Arafat and polonium-210 this summer when traces of the radioactive element were found in the personal effects of the dead former Palestinian leader. As his body was exhumed ...

Chris Packham explains how Marie Curie’s discovery of polonium and radium changed atomic theory and how her study of ...

Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. This week, Yasser Arafat’s widow has called for the late Palestinian ...

The deadly radioactive element polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Scientists at Switzerland’s Institute ...

One hundred years ago, Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize, in chemistry, for her 1898 discovery of the elements polonium and radium, which she had painstakingly isolated from a radioactive uranium ...

Polonium is used in very small quantities in some industrial applications Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in ...