Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are tiny but resilient microorganisms capable of surviving the harshest conditions such as severe drought, radiation, low oxygen environments, ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

Scenes from the nuclear theater of a long cold war: In the 1940s and '50s, when Americans still trusted their doctors and their government, researchers subjected hundreds of ill-informed people to ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power ...

Chornobyl is the Ukrainian form, while Chernobyl reflects older Russian usage. Professor Deborah Oughton at the Norwegian ...

Rethinking nuclear radiation and its dangers is critical if the world is to turn away from hydrocarbon sources of energy. Many of us are seeing unwelcome spikes in our electric bills. This is due in ...

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When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more ...