This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; simple habits that could reduce your risk of dementia; a new light therapy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than ...

A reanalysis of whole-genome data from 130 children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster has identified a statistically significant increase in a specific type of DNA mutation in the offspring of ...

At his April 29 general audience, Pope Leo XIV met with over 45 members of the nuclear cleanup crew who worked in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. The president of the Chernobyl-Fukushima ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- A quarter-century after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, a week of meetings on the world's worst nuclear accident pressed home the message that the Chernobyl cleanup will ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Greed in the nuclear industry and corporate influence over the U.N. watchdog for atomic energy may doom Japan to a spreading nuclear disaster, one of the men brought in to clean up ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." About an hour and a half past midnight on April 26, 1986, an unexpected power surge coursed through a ...