Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With humans largely out of the picture, wildlife has returned to the once-settled Chernobyl area. Last year, researchers found ...

Scientists have revealed the reason why dogs living in the nuclear radiation zone of Chernobyl appear to have turned blue - and denied that radiation poisoning is the cause. Wild conspiracy theories ...

As part of a continuing series, Talha Burki looks at the issues at the core of medicine in nuclear power plants.

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 ...

The protective steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, constructed to contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, has reportedly lost its primary safety functions following a ...

This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...