The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a magnet for lurid images that seem to show nature warped by radiation, from ...

the Chernobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear power plant accident occurred in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine) of the Soviet Union, and the radius of the radioactively contaminated power ...

Strange things are happening amid the fallout of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Black fungus found flourishing amid the debris in the ruined plant itself may be “eating” radiation. Frogs are ...

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 ...

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 ...