Mutant wolves who 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.

Firefighters battle with a forest fire near the village of Ragovka, close to the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, April 10, 2020.

(NEW YORK) -- Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, the worst nuclear accident in history.In the early hours of April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers inadvertently set ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Wolves in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are being exposed to upwards of 11.28 millirem of radiation per day – six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans, according to the study.

Worms that live in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone are immune to radiation – what this means for mankind By Alyssa Guzman Published March 7, 2024, 2:53 p.m. ET ...

Chernobyl Bird Study May Help Us in a 'More Nuclear Future' Published Jul 03, 2024 at 9:06 AM EDT Updated Jul 03, 2024 at 12:29 PM EDT By Pandora Dewan ...

Science Biology Chernobyl’s feral dogs are genetically unique, but not mutated At least 30 generations have roamed the abandoned region since 1986. Andrew Paul Jan 14, 2025 11:34 AM EST ...

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 ...

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 ...