After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with ...

Radioactive waste is smoldering in a part of Chernobyl that is unreachable. Two chemical experts heed caution of another explosion. The fatal 1986 explosion left the place a ghost town. Scientists are ...

Employees of the Chernobyl nuclear plant say Russian soldiers showed signs of radiation poisoning during their occupation. They say some developed huge blisters and were vomiting after ignoring ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, gray wolves in the exclusion zone have developed genetic traits potentially linked to cancer resilience. Researchers found thousands of genes behaving ...