When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...
On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...
The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...
In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation ...
The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...
The mutant wolves of Chernobyl have genetically evolved enough to be protected against cancer.
Scientists find that Chernobyl's grey wolves have evolved cancer-resilient genomes despite high radiation levels. This ...