Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday's strike damaged the shell and briefly started a fire.

Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday revealed that a Russian drone hit the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the si ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

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

Scientists have been arguing about the health risks from radiation since the end of the 19th century, when radioactivity was ...

The nonagenarian survived the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, the Chernobyl disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic (Representational Image via Pexels) Mayya Gil, a 95-year-old New Yorker who survived the Nazi ...

Lead exposure among Americans has greatly decreased ... Lead toxicity and impacts on children’s brains No amount of lead is safe in the human body. Likewise, no known natural role exists for ...

Credit: Getty Images While ... near in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) near Pripyat in Ukraine, and a new study has been published this month. And, as it turns out, radiation-induced mutations ...

Among the things scientists have been looking at recently are the genetic differences of dogs living near in the Chernobyl Exclusion ... to determine if low-level exposure over many years to ...