In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactor, a strange survivor has quietly rewritten the rules of life in extreme ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

These wild horses were introduced to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 1998 as part of a "rewilding experiment." ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

When scientists first found a black fungus growing at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, they were baffled. Now, a decade later, research has determined that not only is the fungus using the ...

In 2018, researchers even sent one of the Chernobyl molds, a strain dubbed Cladosporium sphaerospermum, to the International ...

Scientists are investigating a black fungus in Chernobyl that not only survives extreme radiation but appears to grow better when exposed to it, possibly using a proposed process called radiosynthesis ...

Further analysis revealed that these fungi contained unusually high levels of melanin, the pigment that protects human skin ...

Last month, Dr Betz’s team spotted three blue dogs in Chernobyl, the restricted area surrounding the epicentre of the 1989 ...

Natalia Khodemchuk, the widow of the first victim of the 1986 nuclear disaster, died from the impact of a Shahed strike on ...

Amusement parks are usually filled with laughter and excitement. But the one in Chernobyl, located in the abandoned town of ...