After humans left Chernobyl, animals stayed behind. Radiation seeped into every cell, damaging DNA and altering how bodies developed. Some animals were born with deformities, tumors, or shortened ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a magnet for lurid images that seem to show nature warped by radiation, from ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

The standard should be, if Cesium-137 or other isotopes of concern are detectable in food items, they ought to be pulled off ...

An international team of scientists has analyzed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and ...