Mucor mould, also known as black fungus, computer illustration© Getty A view of Polissia hotel in the abandoned city of Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine,© Getty ...

There’s an organism thriving within the Chernobyl disaster zone that is not only enduring some of the harshest living conditions imaginable, but potentially helping to improve them too. The ...

Chernobyl’s wild boars have been the subject of a long-standing scientific mystery. While the radioactivity of deer in the region has predictably decreased over the decades, the wild boar ...