When photos of bright blue dogs wandering through the ruins of Chernobyl began circulating online, the internet leapt to a familiar conclusion. In a place synonymous with radiation, mutation, and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “The dark frogs would have survived the radiation better and reproduced more successfully,” two of the authors of the 2022 study wrote for The ...

(via SciShow) After the Chernobyl Disaster, researchers have been studying the movement of radioactive contamination all over central Europe. Fortunately, that radioactive contamination is decreasing ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Suggested Citation: "Front Matter." Mary Mycio. 2005. Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/11318. The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such ...