Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

When the next Three Mile Island vents its deadly radioactive gas, when a Chernobyl threatens to melt its superheated ... “Also, because they were older, there would be no problem of genetic defects in ...

Neither the NRC nor state nor PG&E have done the necessary tests to guarantee Diablo’s safety, refusing to re-test for embrittlement even though such defects forced the NRC to shut the Yankee ...

Chernobyl was, of course, a unique design ... This is the scientific consensus on Fukushima: There’s no discernible increase in cancer or in birth defects or heart attacks or deformities in coming ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray ...

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 ...

Scientists have been arguing about the health risks from radiation since the end of the 19th century, when radioactivity was ...

Artificial intelligence can help doctors detect fetal heart defects, improving newborns' chances of survival, a new study says. AI-aided analysis of prenatal ultrasounds detected heart defects ...

This is the opposite of what happens in crystals, whose ordered structure facilitates their mathematical description, as well as the identification of those "defects," which practically control ...