The new film dives into many lesser-known aspects of the Curies' lives, like their interest in the occult, and Marie's headline-grabbing affair.

Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, destroyed diseased cells faster than healthy ones. Could the element fight ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

Chromolithograph of Marie and Pierre Curie looking at a vial of radium, from Vanity Fair (December 22, 1904). The Curies won the Nobel Prize for Physics, for their discovery of radioactivity, in 1903.

Unlike the original Madame Curie, this kitty would prefer to be the one and only in her household. Marie shared the spotlight with her husband, physicist Pierre Curie, who shared her first Nobel ...