For years, scientists have used controlled radiation exposure in experiments to induce beneficial mutations in plants and animals. The dogs living in Chernobyl may be experiencing a similar ...

Children whose parents were exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have no excess mutations, a new study reveals. Almost 35 years to the day after the catastrophic accident ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 ... and possibly evolve—under chronic radiation exposure. Radiation is known to cause mutations in DNA, which can lead to cancer, birth defects, and ...

Thousands of hectares of Chernobyl-affected farmland, long deemed too dangerous for cultivation in northern Ukraine can ...

which sent a large radiation cloud over much of Europe and contaminated large areas of then-Soviet Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. With the last operating reactor at Chernobyl shut in December ...

but dogs were still gunned down when found in a bid to stop radiation spreading. However, there’s plenty of speculation that the hard knocks experienced by the dogs at Chernobyl - and their ...

Radiation from Chernobyl contributed an extra -0.1-0.2 mSv to each of us in Ireland during the first year after its arrival. Annual doses in subsequent years have been and will be very much lower.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is a massive scar on the only thing standing between a decades-old nuclear disaster and the potential for another. The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to prevent deadly radiation spewing ...

“Since 1986, there has been a lot of misinformation about radiation risks from Chernobyl, which has negatively impacted on people still living in abandoned areas,” study lead author Jim Smith from the ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) – Belarus’ program on overcoming the impact of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident focuses on social security and radiation protection, Leonid Dedul, First ...