In the Netflix movie Kate, an assassin is poisoned by the highly radioactive element Polonium-204, and swears revenge. But is ...

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She named it Polonium, after her native Poland ... Curie not only discovered radium, she realised what it could be used for: to attack cancer cells. Suddenly doctors had a new weapon in the ...