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Cancer awareness day is observed in India every year on November 7 to create awareness on one of the deadly diseases mankind is struggling against. India is the first country in the world to have initiated ‘National Cancer Awareness Day’ on 7th November which happens to be the birthday of…

An artful account of a scientific genius and her female disciples leaves Marie Curie’s inner life an enigma

France is redesigning its 10, 20 and 50 euro cent coins to honour women who have marked the country's history. The faces of national icons Simone Veil, Josephine Baker and Marie Curie will appear on coins set to go into circulation from the middle of 2024.

Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will be laid to rest Wednesday in France’s Pantheon on the 80th anniversary of his killing by a Nazi firing squad. So-called pantheonisation is France’s highest honour – but what are its origins, and what's the criteria for entering this secular temple that celebrates the…

French government to hear last-ditch appeal this week over new culture minister’s ‘compromise’ for Pavillon des Sources

France's culture minister said Friday that the demolition of a site linked to pioneering radioactivity researcher Marie Curie would be put on hold. This after several prominent figures called for its preservation in the name of heritage.

Each October, physics is in the news with the awarding of the Nobel Prize. The work acknowledged through this most prestigious award often seems far removed from our everyday lives, with prizes given for things like “optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms” and “elucidating the quantum structure of…

Freedom of Information requests show that funding is failing to keep up with the spiralling costs of end-of-life care.

This week’s Sci-Five science quiz is on radioactivity.