Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, ...

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to ...

In the first post of this series, I described what happens to the human body at ground zero of a 10 to 15-kiloton nuclear ...

Cuproptosis was discovered in 2022. It was a previously unknown type of cell death caused by an excess of copper. The ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

True. There is no reliable evidence that Wi-Fi, mobile phones, or microwave ovens cause cancer, as they emit non-ionising ...

Discover how targeted red and near-infrared light therapies influence mitochondrial biology, cellular repair pathways, and ...

People are buying helmets, face masks, vests and beds that emit long-wavelength light. Beneath the hype, there is some ...

Microwave ovens are a common feature in kitchens, yet many people worry they cause cancer. Let’s debunk this myth and ...

The IAEA is inviting research organizations to join a new project that will use machine learning to better predict structural changes in polymers caused by ionizing radiation. Rad ...