Since Yasser Arafat died in Percy Hospital in Paris of uncertain causes in 2004, rumors have swirled that the Palestinian leader may have been assassinated. A new medical report lends considerable ...

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Conspiracy theories continue over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and polonium is suspected as the weapon of the alleged assassin.... Lighting Up The Investigative Path With ...

The real-life spy thriller surrounding the poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko makes the apparent poison, radioactive polonium-210, sound like a supersecret killer ingredient. It's rare ...

Tests reveal that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element. Those personal ...

Derek Conlon played at the bar where late Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had his fateful cup of tea. Conlon drank from the same cup laced with poisoning an hour later and still has trace amounts of ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ingested lethal radioactive polonium before his death nine years ago, and it could not have been by accident, Swiss scientists said ...

Companies knew for decades smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic October 1, 2011 -- A new study says tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and ...

Elizabeth Rona’s work taught us fundamental details about atoms. Her preoccupation with the radioactivity of seawater and ocean sediments revealed the hands of a clock, stretching back eons. She did ...