Wolves around the world have evolved different skull shapes—humans are also shaping their evolution

A new international study led by researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, shows that wolves living in different parts ...
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Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone - and the mutations are hard to ignore

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

Scientists finally explain why these wild boars stay more radioactive than Chernobyl’s wolves

What explains this surprising finding? The answer appears to be a complex mix of history, ecology, and diet. Bavaria’s wild ...
Tech Times

Adventure Time Side Quests Drops 20 Episodes Sunday: AI Alignment to Adaptive Radiation

Adventure Time Side Quests premieres Sunday on Disney Plus and Hulu with all 20 episodes. Every major element of Ooo maps to an active STEM frontier: AI alignment in Bubblegum’s rogue robots, ...

In 1998, scientists released a herd of the world's last truly wild horses into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; long-term censuses found that mammals there are thrivi…

The desolate environment around Chernobyl has long symbolised technological catastrophe. When reactor number four erupted in ...
The Cool Down

Camera traps in Ukraine's Chernobyl zone showed deer, horses went quiet after Russian troops arrived

But new camera-trap research suggests that wildlife behavior shifted quickly once Russian forces took control of the zone ...
AOL

The Mutant Wolves of Chernobyl Have Evolved to Survive Cancer

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, then part of the Soviet Union. The ...
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40 Years After The Disaster, Chernobyl's Nuclear Plant Is A Tragic Time Capsule

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...
Indian Defence Review

The Wolves That Survived a Nuclear Disaster Are Evolving Into Something Scientists Have Never Seen

Forty years after the nuclear disaster, gray wolves thriving inside the exclusion zone carry distinct genetic markers linked to cancer resilience, raising questions about rapid evolution under extreme ...
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Belarusian film about Chernobyl aftermath cleanup, land restoration screened in Bern

MINSK, 29 April (BelTA) – A screening of the film “Chernobyl. Living Earth” produced by the Belarusfilm studio took place in the city of Bern, BelTA learned from the Embassy of Belarus in Switzerland.
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Chernobyl 40 years later: How the disaster changed nuclear safety worldwide

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...
The New York Times

40 Years Ago, a Nuclear Catastrophe at Chernobyl

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 ...