In the middle of the 20th century, the atom was all the rage. Radiation was the shiny new solution to everything while being similarly poorly understood by the general public and a great deal of those ...

There have been many snake-oil automotive products over the years, promising to deliver better performance and fuel economy, and nearly all were based on science as shaky as that of the mythical ...

The promotion was real — for 15 cents and a Kix cereal box top, one could receive a ring containing polonium-210, the same deadly radioactive material used decades later to kill former Russian ...