For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice of agriculture is intimately tied to the development of society, while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Chornobyl disaster in 1986 left a lasting impact on the surrounding environment. But a new study reveals a surprising finding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." About an hour and a half past midnight on April 26, 1986, an unexpected power surge coursed through a ...

It did not take long after the discovery of X-rays in the 1890s for scientists to begin exploring the harmful effects of ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

Decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, hundreds of free-roaming dogs are thriving around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP). Now, scientists have revealed that these animals are not ...

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Radiation-induced mutation is ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet ...