Nearly 40 years after the disaster, Cladosporium sphaerospermum not only survives lethal radiation levels but appears to grow ...

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor, where radiation levels can still kill a human in minutes, ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life. Ever since the Unit Four reactor at ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

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 ...

Hard-to-kill mould could be used to protect people living on the Moon and Mars from deadly cosmic rays ...

Spiking radiation levels recorded at Chernobyl are probably due to Russian military vehicles stirring up radioactive dust, according to Ukraine authorities. Russian forces gained control of the ...

Colony reproduction reduced by 30 to 45 percent at radiation doses previously considered too low to impact insects Bumblebees exposed to levels of radiation found within the Chernobyl exclusion zone ...