That warming glow radium puts out is caused by the element ... After the sun sets and it gets dark, those electrons ...

Dials on clocks and watches in the 1920’s to 1940’s were painted to produce a glow in the dark luminescence with a phosphor mixed with radium. The risk of radium used in watches and clocks was ...

Radium Girls is being presented by the Powerhouse Theatre, and Don Dennison's mom was actually a radium dial painter ...

However, the radium which killed them did not have a green glow - it was the phosphor that glowed green. Fortunately, in modern consumer products like watches and glow-in-the-dark stars ...

In the opening pages of Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne describes the ... A triumph of stylish prose, the book tackles dark subject matter with moral precision and a surprisingly keen sense ...

Concerns were raised after campaigners found evidence that the ex-RAF base in Nottinghamshire had been used after the Second World War to dismantle hundreds of Lancaster Bombers and other aircraft ...