The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the surrounding region became one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans left—but wildlife stayed. Scientists have since documented deformities, genetic ...

Forty years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, Chernobyl has become something nobody anticipated: a wildlife sanctuary. A new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society ...