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Rare Przewalski’s horses thrive in the Chernobyl exclusion zone conservation experiment 40 years after the nuclear disaster.
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The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...
Following the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, some experts estimated that plant life wouldn’t recover for several decades—yet sprouts regrew within a couple months. A new study analyzes ...
Robotic cloud laboratories powered by AI can carry out experiments remotely and cut costs. J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images Stephen D. Turner, University of Virginia Artificial intelligence is ...