Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

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 ...

Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, scientists have discovered a form of life that's thriving on the radiation that's been left behind. A strange black fungus called ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine — Officials in Ukraine have confirmed that radiation rates at Chernobyl have exceeded “control levels” at a large number of observation points. Russian forces captured the power plant ...

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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a searchlight illuminates the damages of a protective shell over the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following a drone ...

A forest fire burns near the village of Volodymyrivka, in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, April 5, 2020. Ukrainian authorities have sought to calm fears around a ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure and briefly ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure and briefly ...