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In Tuesday’s episode of National Geographic’s Genius, we meet Marie Curie, the brilliant female scientist at the turn of the century who discovered, among other things, the element radium. The problem ...

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Marie Curie holds a special place in Nobel Prize history—not only the first woman to win the prize, but also one of very few people to have been awarded a second. Both were connected with the element ...

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ... . The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth's ...