The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still reeling with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been able to determine if the children ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers studying gray wolf populations near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site discovered a genetic evolution that may be ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thousands of dogs continue living around the abandoned exclusion zone. Scientists have been studying these animals to better understand how ...

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 dogs ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test, it spewed ...

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...