Gone are the days when the only way to make butter seem even healthier was to name it after a radioactive element. Beginning in the 1910s, the girls instructed to put radium in their mouths didn't bat ...

More than half of Americans could be drinking tap water tainted with a radioactive element. A new report from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) finds more than 170 million people are ...

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 ...

This 1921 ad touts the “power” of radium. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The harmful effects ...

We have to look at history truthfully in order to learn from it, and D.W. Gregory’s play “Radium Girls” shines a light on a dark moment in our past. In the 1920s, women who worked at the U.S. Radium ...

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 ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Modern life have you feeling frazzled? Flagging a bit as you rush through your day? Maybe you’re one of the millions of consumers who lean on ...