Chernobyl Fungus Might Hold Secrets to Extreme Adaptation
Deep inside the abandoned ruins of the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, life found a strange way to persist. Amid concrete and steel warped by radiation, scientists discovered a black fungus that doesn’t just survive, it thrives. Cladosporium sphaerospermum grows where radiation is so high that most life would perish. What makes this fungus remarkable is that, instead of avoiding radiation, it seems to use it. It may convert deadly radiation into energy, similar to how plants turn sunlight into food.
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