When you think about what visionary Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie accomplished during her extraordinary life, it’s impossible not to be impressed. Not only did she (with her husband Pierre) discover the elements Radium and Polonium, coin the term “radioactivity” to describe the emission of uranic rays, and become the first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize and hold a professorship at the Sorbonne, she did it well over a hundred years ago when it was even harder for a woman to enter the field of science. In addition, her work in the field of x-rays …

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Radioactive, the stately Marie Curie biopic starring Rosamund Pike, first debuted as the closing film of the Toronto Film Festival in 2019 (which now feels like roughly ten million years ago) and was slated for a release this spring from Amazon Prime Video. But with the world descending into chaos and all, things were rearranged, and the movie will now debut at the end of July on the streaming service. Seriously! It’s even got a brand-new trailer to prove it! The film documents the life of famed physicist and chemist Marie Curie (Pike), who, along with her husband …

Studiocanal has released the first trailer for Radioactive. Directed by Marjane Satrapi (The Voices), the film stars Rosamund Pike as brilliant scientist Marie Curie and follows her groundbreaking research on the discovery of radioactivity. However, she must endure not only societal stagnation but the health costs of handling radioactive material. Adam Chitwood caught the movie at TIFF last year and gave it a positive review. In his review, he wrote: Satrapi gracefully lets the audience in on the impact of Curie’s work by intermittently intercutting short scenes depicting applications of Curie’s discovery decades later. These range from the …

Scientific discovery goes hand in hand with tragedy. Every monumental leap forward in progress is met with an unintended consequence sooner or later; every major innovation comes with a cost, be it personal, professional, or global. But should that unknown cost prevent experimentation and innovation in the name of betterment? And how does one measure the benefit of a scientific discovery versus a cost that may only become known over time? These are heady questions with no easy answers, but they’re ones that renowned scientist Marie Curie had to wrestle with time and again throughout her life, as chronicled …