For nearly four decades the area surrounding the ruined Soviet reactor has remained largely empty of people, yet full of wildlife adapting to an unusual landscape. After the April 1986 explosion at ...
After the Chernobyl disaster, humans fled—but animals stayed. Inside the exclusion zone, radiation twisted bodies, damaged DNA, and left visible marks on birds, insects, and mammals. Some species ...
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth's most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ways no scientist ever predicted. Nearly 39 years after the world's worst ...
When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than the initial blast. Researchers sequenced the genomes of Chernobyl ...