Chernobyl

A type of black fungi that eats radiation was discovered inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. In 1991, the strange fungi was found growing up the walls of the reactor, which baffled scientists due to the extreme, radiation-heavy environment. Researchers ev…

A fungus observed inside Chernobyl is a radiation extremophile that could inspire new technology. Removing radiation and even turning it into energy could help clean disaster sites and enable spaceflight.The fungi use high amounts of…

My first job out of college was preventing a nuclear power station from melting down. It was summer 1986, the fall-out from Chernobyl was blowing over Europe and, after graduating in engineering science, I undertook a software development project for the UK A…

Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via APBack in 1991, scientists were amazed when they made the discovery... In the eerie environment inside the abandoned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, researchers remotely piloting robots spotted pitch black fungi growing on the walls of the decimated No. 4 nuclear reactor and even apparently breaking…

tom cotton mike pompeo Mark J. Terrill/AP Republican Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that Chinese officials misled the public on the origins of the novel coronavirus, saying it may have originated in a "super-laboratory." At a Senate hearing wit…

It’s February and, while the path to the Emmys looks more like a minimum maintenance road than a FasTrak to trophy town, there’s already one series that appears to have a leg up on the competition. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) gave one final boost to H…

As the coronavirus spreads, especially in east Asia, the response of states with weak healthcare systems and low transparency will come into question. The United Nations has already identified this as its major administrative concern in its global response. R…

There have been nearly 2,800 confirmed cases of coronavirus so far. At least 80 people have died, and the disease has popped up in a dozen countries. Chinas Hubei province, where the virus originated, is on lockdown; its cities resemble a post-apocalyptic lan…

A Washington state man claims his wife and 8-year-old son were told to "get away" while they were browsing a food sample stand at Costco, over fears of the new Wuhan coronavirus.  Devin Cabanilla told Insider that he and his family were out for lunch and dec…

As the Chinese government grapples with how to contain the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak that has infected 2,800 people worldwide, some Chinese people are comparing the government's handling of the epidemic to that in another historical event: the 1986 Chernobyl…