Present Levels of Radiation in Chernobyl Still Harmful, Even For Bees

Medicine & Technology Oct 21, 2020

Scientists believe that policymakers should think about nuclear environmental risks again after finding out that bumblebees exposed to current levels of Chernobyl radiations suffered a significant drop in their ability to reproduce.

Evolution of Radio-Resistant Strains of Bacteria Revealed More Complex Mutations

Sep 22, 2020

A team of researchers set out to understand how some organisms develop resistance to radiation within the Earth, a place naturally protected from solar radiation by its own magnetic field.

Prolonged Exposure to Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation Increased the Risk of Hypertension

May 03, 2019

The hypertension incidence among the workers in the study was higher than that among Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, but lower than the risk estimated for cleanup workers following the Chernobyl nuclear accident