The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear meltdown that began on ... An astronaut on a mission to Mars could receive radiation ...

Comparing this exposure to everyday radiation doses—such as that from a routine dental visit—Burraco emphasized that present-day levels in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone are considerably low due ...

They found that colony reproduction reduced by 30–45% at doses previously considered too low to impact insects. "We found that at radiation levels detectable in Chernobyl, the number of new queen bees ...

The fungus, which has been found on Chernobyl's Reactor 4, has adapted to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy.

In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, worms show no genetic damage despite living in highly radioactive soil, and free-ranging ...

ENR correspondent Peter Reina took a journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone in eastern Ukraine to see the construction of ...

A type of bacteria dubbed “Conan the Bacterium” can withstand radiation thousands of times stronger than what can kill a ...

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Environmental Impact Assessment of the Drawdown of the Chernobyl NPP Cooling Pond as a Basis for Its Decommissioning and ...

After the Chernobyl disaster, scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed to thrive where the radiation was highest. Cladosporium ...

The head of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, Oleg Korikov, has urged against any further delays in the ...

Microscopic worms that live their lives in the highly radioactive environment of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) appear to do so completely free of radiation damage. Nematodes collected from ...

An astronaut on a mission to Mars could receive radiation doses up to 700 times higher than on our planet, the ESA has stated. The mutants of Chernobyl: How radiation exposure has forced animals ...