The world is home to some highly radioactive places that remain dangerously off-limits to humans. From lake dumping grounds in Russia to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, these places pose extreme health ...

China has reopened its market to seafood from Japan after a nearly two-year ban over the discharge of slightly radioactive ...

Once part of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is now home to an atomic lake created during the USSR’s reign. This lake is in the ...

Within dimly lit FBI offices and shadowy woods, The X-Files constructed a world in which the unexplainable was not only ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Europe isn’t just at risk of the direct effects of climate change, it is also exposed to the indirect effects of infectious disease like dengue, chikungunya and West Nile Virus – which are ...

A lot of vintage comic books at a Jacksonville auction house had buyers nationwide bidding upward of $12,000 to get their ...

Uranium is a story of duality. It is a mineral pulled from ancient rocks that can light up a city or wipe one off the map. It’s not just a relic of the Cold War or science fiction. It’s real, it’s ...

The fracking industry says its operators strictly adhere to regulations, and it has “no greater priority” than ensuring ...

These aren’t the only impressive and unusual sculptures you’ll find lurking outdoors in the Bay Area. From shambling ...

A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever ...

We’ll be finishing our live updates shortly. Today we’ve unpacked the UK government’s proposed changes to welfare benefits, ...