Radioactive waste is smoldering in a part of Chernobyl that is unreachable. Two chemical experts heed caution of another explosion. The fatal 1986 explosion left the place a ghost town. Scientists are ...

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 ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation ...

Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl is still frozen in time—but not in the way you’d expect. In this video, we explore the abandoned buildings, eerie silence, and ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Signs of fission in a room entombed at Chernobyl. Plus, the US backs waiving patents on COVID vaccines and exploring what level of coronavirus risk societies will accept. Signs of fission in a room ...

GOMEL, 26 April (BelTA) – A memorial sign honoring the feat of the liquidators was unveiled in Gomel on the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, BelTA has learned. The ...