It can also be used as a lightweight heat source for thermoelectric power in space satellites. Polonium is located in Group 16 and period 6 in the periodic table of elements. It's classified as a ...

The ability to produce heat in such small quantities has led it to be used as a possible source of heat for equipment in space. Polonium does have a variety of more mundane earth bound uses as well, ...

LONDON The deadly radioactive element polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Scientists at Switzerland's ...

Polonium-210 is back in the spotlight. The radioisotope first gained notoriety back in 2006, after the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a one-time source for journalists who wanted to know about the ...

LONDON – Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. This week, Yasser Arafat's widow has called for the ...

Swiss scientists say they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with polonium. The deadly radioactive element first hit the headlines when it was used to ...

British doctors have linked polonium to the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy. Polonium is a highly radioactive metallic element and is most often used as polonium 210.