In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactor, a strange survivor has quietly rewritten the rules of life in extreme environments. A jet-black fungus that appears to feed on radiation is now at the ...

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

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 ...

This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...