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, … ...

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl ...

This research is among the first to closely examine how chronic, low-level radiation affects the physiology of animals in this area.

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl ...

The Chernobyl site in northern Ukraine has been filled with deadly radiation since the 1986 nuclear meltdown, but a new study shows that microscopic worms at the site seem to be unaffected by the ...

Scientists have conducted the first deep dive into the animals’ DNA. The dogs of Chernobyl are genetically distinct, different from purebred canines as well as other groups of free-breeding dogs.

Radiation-induced mutations may not be the reason for the genetic differences between dog populations living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to a new study. The study, published ...

Nearly three decades since the disaster and it seems the birds living in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl are adapting to long-term radiation exposure. And some of them aren’t even just ...

Studying a species of microscopic worms exposed to high radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, researchers couldn’t find signs of genetic damage caused by the exposure. The findings are set ...

“The Chernobyl dog population provides a unique opportunity to study the long-term effects of radiation on a population that is closely linked to humans in a natural setting,” Spatola said.