A $40 million HBO drama miniseries based on real events perfectly represents the new golden age of prestige television in the streaming era.

The frogs’ adaptation is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion during a technical test on April 26, 1986. The accident in what was then the Soviet Union emitted more than 400 times ...

Scene from the former day care facility in the town of Pripyat – the company town for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was built as a shining example of the “Life Soviet” in the mid-seventies – ...

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me’s Peter Sagal hosts the show with series creator Craig Mazin Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me’s Peter Sagal hosts the show with series creator Craig Mazin Chernobyl is a compelling show ...

On the morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor in a nuclear power plant in what’s now northern Ukraine exploded and burned—triggering what would become history’s deadliest nuclear accident. The hellish ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear plant suffered the power output surge that would destroy its #4 reactor, a substance called ‘corium‘ was formed. This originally lava-like substance formed out of the ...