A protective shield at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been in disrepair for 10 months as a result of a Russian drone strike. Officials from the ...

The idea that simply standing near a chunk of material for five minutes could leave you dead within two days sounds like science fiction, yet it is rooted in very real physics and biology. At one ...

Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, hidden beneath layers of radioactive debris, lies one of the most dangerous objects on the planet: the Elephant’s Foot. A grotesque, wrinkled mass of molten ...