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For the first time in history, scientists have measured radium's bonding interactions with oxygen atoms in an organic molecule. Scientists have not measured this bonding before because radium-226 is ...

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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 ...

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 ...