A study of 302 Chernobyl dogs found distinct genetic populations near the nuclear plant and in Chernobyl City, about 15 km ...

That eerie feeling when the world suddenly becomes unfamiliar has a name: jamais vu. While the phenomenon is relatively ...

The dogs of Chernobyl aren’t proven radiation-resistant, but new genetic research may reveal whether nuclear fallout shaped their evolution.

When a young lab worker died after developing a mysterious form of pneumonia in Siberia earlier this month, speculation ...

Just over 40 years ago, what began as a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (or Chornobyl in Ukranian) ...

Driven by the 1925 Scopes trial and Soviet anti-religious propaganda, Ilya Ivanov attempted to breed a human-chimpanzee hybrid in 1927 to prove evolution.

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

Forty years after Chernobyl, Moscow faces another information battle over a suspected case of pneumonic plague.

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, twisting trees, and leaving the area mostly uninhabitable for humans. But over ...

Scientists have mapped the genetics of cat cancer on an unprecedented scale and found surprising similarities with tumors in humans. The findings could help bring precision cancer treatments to cats ...

Godzilla Minus Zero earned kaiju cinema’s first R rating in 72 years -- the MPA cited violent content and bloody images. Takashi Yamazaki’s nuclear biology premise, in which radiation amplifies ...

A rare inherited mutation in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) gene is associated with a 25-fold increased risk of lung cancer, according to a study by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer ...