In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest radioactive substances known to man. The promotion was real — for 15 cents ...

Tests reveal that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element. Those personal ...

Following the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, British authorities are following a trail of radioactive contamination. Litvinenko died from the effects of absorbing a rare ...

LONDON, Jan. 11 -- British authorities are working with officials from 48 countries to evaluate about 450 people who were in London around Nov. 1 and fear they might have been exposed to the ...

AFAIK, different radioactive substances decay in fairly predictable, but different manners; ie: they typically decay into certain other substances, and give off certain kinds of radiation and certain ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of a Russian forensics agency said on Tuesday that samples from the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had revealed no traces of radioactive polonium, a Russian news ...

LONDON - President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry ...

Among the few authorized uses of polonium 210 is an industrial application: removing static. A tiny amount of the radioactive compound is seated in a device attached to steel machinery spinning ...

The same radioactive substance used to fatally poison former Russian spy Alexander V. Litvinenko in London last month is a standard component in products made by a Grand Island tech company. NRD, 2937 ...

Derek Conlon played at the bar where late Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had his fateful cup of tea. Conlon drank from the same cup laced with poisoning an hour later and still has trace amounts of ...

Alexander Larcombe, associate professor and head of respiratory environmental health at the Australian Telethon Kids Institute explains how harmful volatile organic compounds, particulate matter and ...