The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...
The frogs’ adaptation is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...
In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...
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 ...
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 ...
For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...