The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl (or Chernobyl) City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), according to a ...

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t actually show any genetic differences were caused by radiation. The idea of ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet ...

Ionizing radiation from nuclear disasters are known to be harmful to the natural environment. The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown that occurred in 2011 is a prominent example of such a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see ...

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Radiation-induced mutation is ...