A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a fungus is absorbing deadly radiation. A black fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum has been found growing ...

After the Chernobyl disaster, scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed to thrive where the radiation was highest. Cladosporium ...

Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising story.

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.