LONDON The deadly radioactive element polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Scientists at Switzerland's ...

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 ...

Toxicologists say a single gram of purified Polonium-210 could kill as many as 50million people ALEXANDER Litvinenko’s murder played out like a spy thriller and at the centre of the murky plot was a ...

This week's element is polonium, which has the symbol Po and the atomic number 84. Named in 1898 to help publicise Poland's lack of freedom at that time, polonium is the first element whose name was ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I first wrote about Yasser Arafat and polonium-210 this summer when traces of the radioactive element were found in the personal effects of the dead former Palestinian leader. As his body was exhumed ...

It has been used to kill a Russian former secret agent in a London hotel bar and is believed to have caused the death of several scientists, but despite the media attention it has drawn in recent ...

With a Swiss forensics investigation pointing to polonium-210 as a possible cause of Yasser Arafat's death, the radioactive element is back in the news. Confirming whether the Palestinian leader died ...

ALEXANDER Litvinenko’s murder played out like a spy thriller and at the centre of the murky plot was a mysterious, deadly element: Polonium-210. He died 22 days after drinking a cup of tea laced with ...