For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, ...
In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactor, a strange survivor has quietly rewritten the rules of life in extreme environments. A jet-black fungus that appears to feed on radiation is now at the ...
Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...