The world ends on Oct. 23, 2077, in a series of radioactive explosions—at least in the world of "Fallout," a post-apocalyptic video game series that has now been adapted into a blockbuster TV show on ...

Fallout ghouls, the skinless, gravel-throated former humans which transform the Bethesda RPG into a zombie game any time they appear, can actually be explained using science, claims one microbiologist ...

“Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure.” That is the assessment of John Erath, the Senior Policy ...

If a large-scale nuclear exchange ever occurred, the United States would face wildly uneven consequences depending on geography, wind patterns, and agricultural capacity. No federal agency publishes ...

As you wander through the irradiated wasteland of Fallout 76 looking for good loot and shooting at fellow survivors, you might wonder about the drastic mutations to the local flora and fauna caused by ...

Fallout is based on a hugely successful video game series known for blending a sardonic, very dark comedic sensibility, and violence. The series is set in the game's post-apocalyptic world – an ...

In the atomic age, March winds and April showers also bring fallouts from the thin upper air. As spring crept over the Northern Hemisphere last week, scientists everywhere deployed their Geiger count ...