The world does not have an answer yet to what would happen to humanity if machines start 'thinking', UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell said at the NDTV Ind.AI Summit today. The only way world ...

The world's worst nuclear energy disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is ...

This year marks the 40 th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Standing as one of the greatest manmade tragedies of the latter half of the 20 th century, for many, it will be commemorated as a ...

TOKYO - Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing the amount of radiation ...

CHILDREN of the Chernobyl “liquidators” who risked it all to clean up the toxic mess are now suffering the consequences, researchers revealed. Almost 40 years since the world’s worst nuclear accident, ...

From Pripyat and Plymouth to Kolmanskop, Craco, and Bodie, these ruins show how disaster and decline can freeze everyday life in place.

Children of workers who cleaned up the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site have a higher frequency of DNA mutations, a study published in Scientific Reports found. The researchers analysed the genomes of ...

Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and ...

The island is surrounded by a coral atoll and is only 0.6 miles wide. Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: where will all of the radioactive ...

Nuclear reactors remain controversial. Events such as the Chernobyl disaster, with fallout so severe it may be creating a new kind of dog, continue to fuel safety concerns. Quite apart from the ...

Between 2011 and 2024, Connecticut experienced 11 climate disasters, based on the 11 federal disaster declarations that were made by the state during that time. A new map shows the breakdown of ...