Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all ...

The American Radium Society (ARS) presented its 2026 Gold Medal Award to Scripps Cancer Center Medical Director Thomas Buchholz, M.D., a Rancho Santa Fe resident, at its annual meeting on May 2 in ...

The Iron Mountain High School Drama Club will present “Radium Girls” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 15-16, in the ...

In an intimate room, standing before an audience on a jutted stage, young clock-dial painters splatter radium paint on each ...

It’s taken them nearly a century, but "Radium Girls” will have their story told on the big screen. A group of young women who were pioneers in the fight for workplace safety and public health are at ...

Salesmen (and the press) learned that tonics labeled ”radium,” once the most expensive substance on Earth, flew off the shelves. Meanwhile, scientists scrambled to learn what the radioactive material ...

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 ...

Some of the fascinating things we did with the radioactive element, including using it as a "wonderful" nightlight, since it "glows with a weird light in a dark room." Radium was discovered by Marie ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...