I first visited Chernobyl in 2016, 30 years after the explosion at Reactor Four. I expected silence and scarcity – a lifeless place, defined by radiation. Instead, I found beavers swimming beneath a ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

When the Chernobyl disaster struck in 1986, it left behind one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans fled, but the animals stayed. Over the years, scientists discovered that radiation had ...