Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot is one of the most radioactive objects on Earth. Just five minutes near it can be fatal, making it a chilling reminder of nuclear disaster.

Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, hidden beneath layers of radioactive debris, lies one of the most dangerous ...

The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray ...

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.

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl (or Chernobyl) City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), according to ...

Hamilton was a trustee for the British Museum and under that guise had obtained a sarcophagus in Paris some years previously. The sarcophagus had been made for someone much shorter – a woman ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 was a pivotal moment which ultimately accelerated the collapse of the USSR, making it one of the most historically significant events in recent history.

Iznik Museum. Credit: Dosseman / CC BY-SA 4.0 A farmer plowing his field in Hocakoy, a village in Iznik, Bursa, Turkey uncovered an ancient sarcophagus. Iznik, once the ancient Greek city of Nicaea ...

On 28 April, the flawed Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ... the first people to alert experts in the West that the sarcophagus could potentially release another large amount ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun after his sarcophagus was discovered in a well-hidden tomb that had been preserved for over 3,000 years, ...