On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...
The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...
The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...
The frogs’ adaptation is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...
Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl ...