The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.
Chernobyl wolves absorb six times the human radiation limit yet thrive, showing genomic shifts that could inform future ...
Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl remains one of the most mysterious places on Earth. The abandoned cities, empty schools, and silent forests have turned the ...
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, ...
A “SUPER fungus” colonising the abandoned ruins of Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant is mystifying scientists. Clinging to the ...
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 ...
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored ...