"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

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 ...

Scientists have revealed the reason why dogs living in the nuclear radiation zone of Chernobyl appear to have turned blue - and denied that radiation poisoning is the cause. Wild conspiracy theories ...

Inside the ruined shell of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, where gamma radiation still spikes far above normal background levels, a strange life form has quietly taken hold. Thick, dark mats of fungus cling ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life. Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other kinds ...

This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...

When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than the initial blast. Researchers sequenced the genomes of Chernobyl ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a black fungus is thriving on the walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth, challenging scientists’ understanding of how life ...