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…