Think about a garden where flowers bloom beside nuclear reactors. It sounds impossible, yet it's happening right now. Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, scientists have watched in amazement as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would ...

Land plants, especially spores and pollen, face numerous environmental stressors, including harmful UV-B radiation. As sessile organisms, they are exposed to UV without the protective buffer of water, ...