The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 led to a tragic loss of life and the abandoning of a town in northern Ukraine that was deemed too radioactive to live in. Pripyat, the site of the disaster in ...

Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study. The wild ...

They’re not turning blue. But are the stray dogs roaming Chernobyl’s radioactive wasteland undergoing rapid evolutionary ...

Wolves in Chernobyl’s radiation zone appear to have developed a resistance to cancer after being exposed to high levels of radiation in the wake of the nuclear disaster 35 years ago, according to a ...

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – Mutant wolves around Chernobyl, where the world’s worst nuclear accident took place 35 years ago, have now developed anti-cancer abilities, an advance that may open the door for ...

Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have ...

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