Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

A strike at a facility storing spent nuclear fuel at Chernobyl has reignited fears of a nuclear disaster, with Ukraine accusing Russia of ‘nuclear terrorism’.

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, then part of the Soviet Union. The disaster affected hundreds of thousands of people and left a contaminated landscape that scientists are still trying to understand 40 years later.

Wolves in Ukraine's Chernobyl area are developing resilience to cancer, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology reports. A nuclear disaster followed the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April l986 in northern Ukraine, then part ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation exposure may have altered animals’ genomes—and even, possibly, sped up evolution.

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with high levels of radiation ... Thirty-seven years ago, on ...