This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to ...

The clicking sound from Timothy Mousseau’s radiation detector slowly increased as he walked through the forest in Ukraine, a few miles west of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As he stopped to ...