The nuclear crisis in Japan has evoked memories of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Robert Baker, a biologist at Texas Tech, who co-directs the Chernobyl Project, has been studying mammals in ...

But Chernobyl still boasts secrets more than three decades later, including the story of Chershnev and his charges — a saga of dysfunction and disregard for human life that lays bare conditions ...

The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl plant was a ticking time bomb for years before it melted down.

Still others believe the Black Bird of Chernobyl was a form of the creature known as Moth Man whose presence only ever meant one thing: that a catastrophic event would soon follow.

Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is smoldering. To prevent another accident, researchers are studying the site's radioactive lava.

The second Chernobyl employee said that was "suicidal" for the soldiers because the radioactive dust they inhaled was likely to cause internal radiation in their bodies.

Dogs found in the Chernobyl area are evolving faster than they normally would, a new genetics study suggests.

Researchers observing wild dogs near Ukraine's Chernobyl disaster site hope to extrapolate survival possibilities for humans under similar conditions from the dogs' behavior.

The Chernobyl disaster remains one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, but it may have given us a unique look at evolution in dogs.

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

New research indicates that nestlings in highly radioactive parts of the CEZ do experience subtle biological differences from those reared in clean areas.

When humans evacuated Chernobyl they were forced to leave their pets behind, and generations later hundreds of radiation-blasted dogs live on - very differently to other pooches ...