In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...
The frogs’ adaptation is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...
The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...
On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...
While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...
Roaming in the eerie air of Chernobyl, these wolves are quietly evolving resistance to a radiation which is otherwise toxic ...
A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee will organize the 2016 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium. Its focus will be on commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor ...