As global threats grow, aging survivors of US atomic attacks on Japan feel growing urgency to remind the world of nuclear war ...

On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

GROWING up in the most nuked place on Earth, Maira Abenova has helplessly watched as cancer spread through her family. After ...

Radiation and Rapid Evolution | The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study ...

Nearly four decades later, the Chernobyl Power Plant and many parts of the surrounding area remain uninhabited—by humans, at least. Animals of all kinds have thrived in humanity’s absence.

Testing Disease-Related Mutations Using this approach, the team tested many human mutations known to cause—or not cause—diseases. For example, they looked at changes in enzymes tied to hereditary ...

Understanding how human DNA mutates over time is key to decoding the origins of disease and the path of evolution. But until now, some of the most change-prone regions of our genome have remained out ...