HBO has always set the benchmark and pushed boundaries when it comes to sublime television, whether it was with The Wire, The Sopranos, or even Sex and the City. Even when flooded with quality shows ...

“Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds.” That’s just one of many similar headlines that appeared in response to a scientific ...

The incredible true story of how 3 brave men prevented a potentially larger disaster at Chernobyl. If the molten nuclear fuel beneath Chernobyl's destroyed reactor #4 reached the pool of water in the ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...

A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. By Emily Anthes The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Widely held beliefs include that hundreds of thousands—even millions—of people died from radiation-induced cancer; ecosystems were ravaged; and territories left ...