He lived in Belarus near Chernobyl for five years and worked with the Chernobyl Center's International Radioecology Laboratory. Dr. Gordon Smith is a professor of political science and director of the ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

Comparing Chernobyl dogs to their non‑radioactive cousins To test whether the CEZ dogs are unusual in a broader sense, scientists have compared their genomes to dogs that have never lived near ...

Counted in one of history’s most devastating events, Chernobyl is a name that haunts the world and all the generations that come. An explosion in 1986 at a nuclear power plant not only destroyed the ...