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It's only been tested at 10 meters, but further distances are well within range.

This Black physicist's work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death

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Over the years, Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and journalists have been killed in a variety of ways.

People have used poisons throughout history for a variety of purposes: to hunt animals for food, to treat diseases and to achieve nefarious ends like murder and assassination.

"Big people made big mistakes and now little people have to suffer for it," said PTA president Ashley Bernaugh.

A Missouri school board has decided to shut down a grade school that sits near a contaminated creek after a study funded by law firms involved in a class-action lawsuit found high levels of radioactive material inside the school

Environmental investigation consultants have found significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II.

FLORISSANT, Mo. — There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental investigation consultants. The report by Boston Chemical Data Corp. confirmed fears about contamination at Jana Elementary School in

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian agent Dmitry Kovtun, who was accused by the U.K. authorities in the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, has died at 57. Russian lawmaker Andrei Lugovoi, who also was accused by the U.K.

Russian agent Dmitry Kovtun, who was accused by the U.K. authorities in the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, has died at...

Three months after Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a British hospital from being poisoned by Kremlin secret service agents in 2006, a Los Angeles physician and her daughter were shocked to…

"Putin tried to warn Trump about this, but I don't think Trump figured out what he was saying"

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Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

The play depicts a messy period in the two-time Nobel laureate's life, and her redemptive friendship with fellow scientist Hertha Ayrton

Vladimir Putin could kill again on the streets of Britain, the defence secretary has warned, following the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.Mr