Tiny worms that live in the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were found to be immune to radiation — which scientists hope could provide clues about why some humans develop cancer, while ...
Where once all life ended, his begins: a black fungus is growing in the ruins of the Chernobyl reactor that not only survives ...
Amid the fractured concrete and lingering radiation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a microscopic lifeform has taken root where humans cannot. First documented in the late 1990s, a black ...
In the shadow of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster’s dark legacy, an astonishing discovery has emerged from the soil of the radioactive environment. Not all life has succumbed to the mutations one might ...
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only ...
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays? In May 1997, Nelli Zhdanova entered one ...
On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, then part of the Soviet Union. The ...
Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...
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 ...