They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t actually show any genetic differences were caused by radiation. The idea of ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

"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 ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “The dark frogs would have survived the radiation better and reproduced more successfully,” two of the authors of the 2022 study wrote for The ...

Comparing Chernobyl dogs to their non‑radioactive cousins To test whether the CEZ dogs are unusual in a broader sense, scientists have compared their genomes to dogs that have never lived near ...

When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than the initial blast. Researchers sequenced the genomes of Chernobyl ...