Inside the ruined shell of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, where gamma radiation still spikes far above normal background levels, a strange life form has quietly taken hold. Thick, dark mats of fungus cling ...

This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent reports of stray dogs with bright blue fur near an abandoned chemical plant in Russia have inadvertently shined a new light ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of that may be the lack of humans… but for one organism, at least, the ionizing radiation lingering inside the reactor's ...

"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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a black fungus is thriving on the walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth, challenging scientists’ understanding of how life ...

When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than the initial blast. Researchers sequenced the genomes of Chernobyl ...