LONDON – Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. This week, Yasser Arafat’s widow has called for the late ...

Looking for a hard to detect, highly radioactive and deadly isotope to take out a rival spy? Polonium-210 might be your cup of tea. The toxic material used to murder former Russian agent Alexander ...

LONDON The deadly radioactive element polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Scientists at Switzerland's ...

Polonium is used in very small quantities in some industrial applications Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in ...

Polonium is back in the news as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's wife says Swiss forensic tests show he was poisoned to death by it in 2004. Here are five things to know about the radioactive ...

Swiss scientists have found 18 times the normal amount of polonium in samples of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's body. That has led them to conclude with 83 percent certainty that Arafat was ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Martin Boland has received funding from and collaborates with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. First, we need to understand the basics of radioactivity. Radioactivity is the ...

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