One night in April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant melted down in Ukraine. Since then, there has been much reporting about the disaster, but no book has so ...

These canines “survived for a reason,” an expert told us. But what exactly is causing these rapid genetic transformations?

A recent study, published in PLOS ONE, examined dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and those in the city, located just 10 miles (16 kilometers) away. Researchers wanted to understand ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

and even the nucleotides of the Chernobyl dogs, and found no abnormalities indicative of radiation-induced mutation. “We have been working with two dog populations that, while separated by just ...