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 ...

Polonium 210 isn't easy to come by. To produce significant amounts, a nuclear reactor is necessary. But only a tiny amount of the substance can kill. Polonium is an extremely dangerous element that is ...

The murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was one of the most high-profile assassinations of the decade. It was a case that gripped the world after it emerged Mr Litvinenko died from acute ...

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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Polonium is the 84th entry in the periodic table and is a natural radioelement present in the environment at extremely low concentrations. The discovery of polonium was published 1 by Pierre and Marie ...