Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

LONDON – Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. This week, Yasser Arafat's widow has called for the late ...

Swiss scientists say they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with polonium. The deadly radioactive element first hit the headlines when it was used to kill ...

Polonium is used in very small quantities in some industrial applications Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in ...

Smokers are exposed to more polonium than nonsmokers because it's in tobacco Expert: Radiation poisoning from polonium-210 looks like the end stage of cancer Whether a radioactive substance called ...

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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 ...

One hundred years ago, Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize, in chemistry, for her 1898 discovery of the elements polonium and radium, which she had painstakingly isolated from a radioactive uranium ...

Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in London. He was poisoned by a "major dose" of the radioactive substance ...