The idea that simply standing near a chunk of material for five minutes could leave you dead within two days sounds like science fiction, yet it is rooted in very real physics and biology. At one ...

In April 1986, the world suffered its worst nuclear disaster to date when a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, exploded. The eruption was so severe that toxic levels of radioactive ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth's most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ways no scientist ever predicted. Nearly 39 years after the world's worst ...