A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight. It looked like magic.

In 1917, an Italian-American woman named Amelia Maggia started working at the U.S. Radium Luminous Materials Corp. in Orange, New Jersey, when she was just 19 years old. Her job was to paint soldiers' ...

We have to look at history truthfully in order to learn from it, and D.W. Gregory’s play “Radium Girls” shines a light on a dark moment in our past. In the 1920s, women who worked at the U.S. Radium ...

From the early 20th century, luminescent elements such as radium, tritium, and Super-LumiNova have played a crucial role in pilot’s watches. They have been implemented to ensure optimal readability ...