When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

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

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor, where radiation levels can still kill a human in minutes, ...

Hard-to-kill mould could be used to protect people living on the Moon and Mars from deadly cosmic rays ...

The Chernobyl explosion and resulting fire spewed 200 times as much radioactivity into the environment as the Hiroshima and ...

Thermal vision drones helping to monitor the blaze showed it smouldering until March 3rd – a full 17 days after the drone ...

Italy abandoned nuclear power after Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now, rising energy demand and geopolitics are forcing a rethink.

How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A mystery involving dogs with bright blue fur at the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine left people wondering if radiation or artificial intelligence was to blame, but a veterinarian working in the ...