Scientists have been stunned to find a strange, pitch‑black fungus thriving inside one of the most radioactive buildings on ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the surrounding region became one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans left—but wildlife stayed. Scientists have since documented deformities, genetic ...

Fresh DNA sequencing from 302 strays exposes 390 unique genes near the plant, challenging everything we thought about ...

Today marks 15 years since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan. Some parts of the surrounding area are still recovering.

In Troieshchyna, a residential neighborhood at Kyiv’s northeastern edge, the slide into darkness and cold began during a single night early this year. For much of the war, Russia had been targeting ...

African countries are turning to nuclear energy to boost power supply and cut emissions. Yet complex financing, long ...

Intensifying conflict in Middle East can devastate the region. The conflict has potential to nuclear incident and in that ...

Nuclear power grew in popularity during the 1960s and 1970s — until 4 AM on March 28, 1979, when one of the reactors at Three ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked to reduced cancer risk, according to research described by Princeton ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is bracing for potential nuclear fallout from the escalating US-Israeli war on Iran, and ...