Chernobyl

The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded during a failed safety test. The accident released massive amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere, contaminating large areas of Europe and forcing thousands of people to evacuate. Credit:…

Forty years after the Chornobyl disaster, scientists are still uncovering secrets buried in the radioactive debris. A team from Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has now examined six tiny fragments, each only 8 to 50 micrometers across, that were blasted from the reactor in 1986. These “hot…

A s P a ul s a id later, it was like an earthquake at sea. With the sound of a mighty rushing wind, the ice around us suddenly began to heave and buckle under titanic force. Sections of ice the size of city blocks smashed and ground together, forming…

Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science. He studied marine biology at the University of Exeter before training to become a journalist. He covers a wide range of topics including space exploration, planetary science, space weather, climate change, animal behavior and paleontology. His recent work on the…

The site owners have stressed that entering is a crime. 18:31, Sat, Aug 1, 2026 Updated: 18:37, Sat, Aug 1, 2026 The former Turner Brothers Asbestos factory in Rochdale. (Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News) A UK town is home to a "dangerous" former factory compared to Chernobyl, and…

Just over a week ago, I attended a major artificial intelligence conference in Zhongguancun, Beijing’s bustling high-tech district. It was packed with fascinating sessions touching on everything from recursive self-improvement—the idea that models can tweak their own code and advance indefinitely—to humanoid robots. And it featured a few legends of…

A red fox is spotted near the town of Chernobyl in 2022. (Image credit: Kateryna Korepanova) Camera traps from inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone reveal how the occupation of Russian forces at the site in February and March 2022 altered the behavior of wildlife living in the area. After the…

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Russian soldiers have been injured. 18:05, Fri, Jun 5, 2026 Updated: 18:55, Fri, Jun 5, 2026 ZaporizhzhIA Nuclear Power Plant (Image: Getty) A serious incident has been declared at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as the International Atomic Energy Agency warns of the risk of "nuclear accident." The warning is…