1896: Radioactivity is discovered accidentally by French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel. Becquerel was investigating German colleague Wilhelm Roentgen's work on phosphorescence in uranium salts ...

More than one hundred years ago, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium emitted penetrating rays similar to those used by Wilhelm Röntgen to take the first X-ray image (of his wife’s hand), starting ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

Marie Curie is a name that needs no introduction. A name synonymous with advances in sciences, she was particularly involved in the branch of radioactivity. Marie, in fact, is the only woman so far to ...

For decades, artists have responded to the possibilities of extinction-level destruction. But advances in nuclear science have also led to innovations in art.

In 1896, Henri Becquerel was studying uranium when he discovered a new type of radiation that could pass through metal. His research got the attention of physicist Marie Curie, who began to study ...