Descendants of the dogs exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the Soviet Chernobyl plant meltdown in 1986 might hold the key to what’s needed to survive a nuclear blast. Scientists are ...

The Soviet Union built secret military installations across Eastern Europe, but few are as eerie as the spy base left behind in Chernobyl after the disaster. Abandoned in haste, its walls still echo ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) is primarily famous for the now-destroyed reactor that held the world on ...

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Scientists are reporting discovery of the biological secrets that enable plants growing near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to adapt and flourish in highly radioactive soil — legacy of the 1986 ...

In April 1986, the cause of a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is mysteriously shrouded in a veil of secrecy; now, experts examine declassified documents to uncover the true ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, ...