In the 1920s, a group of women using radium to paint watch dials unknowingly sealed their fate, exposing themselves to a deadly substance that would forever change their lives. Radium Girls, now ...

When radioactive materials emit radiation, not only does it not glow green, it does not glow at all. Ionising radiation, ...

“Radium Girls” is recommended for ages 12 and up and will be performed on Wednesday-Saturday, April 2-5, in the Fourth Avenue ...

Learn about historical figures such as Anna Coleman Ladd who created prosthetic masks for disfigured World War I soldiers, the Radium Girls who painted watch dials for use by soldiers in the ...

As the world’s biggest luxury watch manufacturers gather beneath one sprawling roof at the annual Watches and Wonders trade show in Geneva this week, anniversaries are being celebrated all around.

or that the solution to his “curse” is a combination of the infamous Victorian arsenical wallpaper and perhaps the equally infamous Radium Girls, who were poisoned in part by tipping their ...

These biases and shortcomings are the subject of “Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls,” a new book by brain imaging expert Gina Rippon. Rippon, professor ...