In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving where radiation levels would shred human DNA, turning abandoned nuclear sites ...

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown in Japan 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas ...

When our planet and the incoming sunlight align just right, stunning phenomena such as rainbows and halos can occur. More often, sunlight—or shortwave radiation—interacts with the Earth in subtle but ...

Yes, black holes can die, and the process is called Hawking radiation. The faintness of Hawking radiation makes it virtually impossible to observe in the black holes we can see today. A black hole ...