Radiation expert says radon gas is not to blame, as anxious residents open their hearts about the difficult decision to leave the place they call home.
Tantalising studies now underway to establish if one of two carcases preserved by permafrost has traces of world's oldest mother's milk.
Living bacteria found in permafrost - '3.5 million years old' - is 'scientific sensation' which allows 'mice grannies' to reproduce.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.
As well as her amazing 'modern' footwear, this Mongolian 'seamstress' went to the afterlife with four changes of clothes, her sewing kit, a horse and a ram's head.
Valentin Danilov was released from jail on Saturday after serving eight years of a controversial 13 year jail sentence for selling state secrets to China.
Infant lost its mother but 43,500 years later gives remarkable evidence that cavemen in prehistoric Europe were RIGHT to draw the species with spots.