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Threatened and endangered species were among the dead, likely poisoned overnight by a chlorination system used to decontaminate the animals’ tank water.

Sergii Mirnyi, one of the people who helped clean up after the 1986 disaster, says he founded Chornobyl University to promote much-needed interdisciplinary research on the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

In areas where gray wolf populations have grown, motorists have fewer collisions with deer, likely due to the predators keeping deer away from roadways.

The genomes of the children of people exposed to fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident appear to carry no trace of the incident.

A study of bumble bees exposed to levels of radiation equivalent to those existing in Chernobyl hotspots shows that the insects’ reproduction takes a hit.

The treatment will be tested in a handful of patients who suffered nerve damage in sports or traffic accidents.

Two professors have been arrested for negligence in connection with the blast.

Scientists recreate proprioception for people with artificial arms using a perceptual illusion.

The woman’s own cartilage was used to construct the transplant after she lost her left ear in a car crash.

University of Arizona Professor Raphael Sagarin has died. He was struck by a truck while riding his bicycle.

As many as 75 scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have come in contact with live Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that cause anthrax.