Product Description: Almost everyone and everything in the world is radioactive, from bananas in the kitchen to the bricks and concrete in homes, as well as most things that can be eaten, worn, played with, or touched every day. Radiation can be found everywhere since the universe began and Earth first formed...read more

Product Description: Everything is made up of atoms. There are many kinds of atoms, and groups of one kind of atom come together to create elements. Physicists, the scientists who study atoms, ask questions like: What do atoms do? How do atoms interact with each other? They are also interested in the energy that atoms produce...read more

Product Description: Tells the story of Marie Curie's discovery of radium and radioactivity. Written in graphic-novel format.

Product Description: Tells the story of Marie Curie's discovery of radium and radioactivity. Written in graphic-novel format.

Examines radioactive elements and discusses their discovery, their unique characteristics, their importance, and where they are found.

Discusses the discovery of atoms and how they work, nuclear energy and weapons, nuclear radiation and its medical uses, atomic clocks, and other applications. (view table of contents)

Examines the nature, sources, problems, and uses of radioactivity