The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

Dr. Norman Kleiman, a co-author of the study, said, “Most people think of the Chernobyl nuclear accident as a radiological ...

The hundreds of dogs that live in Chernobyl's exclusion zone have caught the attention of researchers interested in the ...

open image in gallery Photograph shows a dog in the ghost town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (AFP via Getty) Scientists have been studying dog populations near the nuclear ...

The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history. It left a 30-kilometer ...

The big wheel in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Chernobyl. Graham Harries/Shutterstock An abandonded summer camp Pripyat, Chernobyl. Graham Harries/Shutterstock Mutant wolves that roam the human ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 was a pivotal ... The abandoned city of Pripyat in modern day Ukraine serves as a haunting monument which regularly features as a setting in video games.

During the immediate aftermath of the accident at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power in April 1986, a total of 53,000 people were evacuated from the nearby city of Pripyat to various villages in ...