Two UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) physicians with special expertise in radiation poisoning have compiled a fact sheet on polonium-210, the substance implicated in the death of a former ...

Former Prime Minister Theresa May says justice is “highly unlikely to happen” for the people affected by the Salisbury ...

Seven members of the bar staff at the Millenium Hotel in Mayfair, who tested positive for polonium-210, were seriously ill and admitted in a hospital in Moscow. Millenium hotel is where Alexander ...

These days, we are used to having a number of robotic rovers (and briefly, a helicopter) driving and flying around the Moon ...

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In the UK, two Russian ex-secret service agents were targeted: Alexander Litvinenko fatally with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and Sergei Skripal with the toxic nerve agent Novichok in 2018.

Polonium-210 decays rapidly, so the research team will act quickly in conducting its tests. The scientific community has been divided over whether anything will be found, but Professor François ...

Later that year, former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London with tiny amounts (micrograms) of radioactive polonium-210. Investigators are still trying to narrow down where this ...

Ingram said: "We saw that with the Novichok attack in 2018, we saw that with the use of polonium 210 on the streets of London." Now it's feared the Russian dictator could be eyeing up executing a ...

She suspected the presence of an even more powerful element. MARIE-NOELLE HIMBERT: Here, Po, Polonium is the first element that they discovered. CHRIS PACKHAM: It’s remarkable, isn’t it?

Former Prime Minister Theresa May says justice is “highly unlikely to happen” for the people affected by the Salisbury Novichok attack. She hopes the family of Dawn Sturgess, who died after ...