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Something Strange Is Happening to the Fungus in Chernobyl Ashley FikeDecember 1, 2025, 10:21am Chernobyl is the place you picture when you think “absolutely do not go there, ” yet somewhere inside the radiation-soaked location, a black, velvety mold is thriving like it owns the place, Clinging to walls that would send a Geiger counter into a panic, this fungus acts like nuclear fallout is just a silly thing that happened long ago, The organism is Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a melanized fungus whose dark pigment might be doing a strange kind of work, Some researchers suspect its melanin can interact with ionizing radiation in a way that echoes photosynthesis, a proposed process called “radiosynthesis, ” Videos by VICE The mystery began in the late 1990s, when microbiologist Nelli Zhdanova’s team went into the Chernobyl shelter expecting a near-dead zone and instead cataloged 37 species of fungi inside one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth, Many were deep brown to black, load
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[Instrumental] [Instrumental Intro] [Field recordings: Distant café chatter and vinyl crackle] [Vinyl dust and tape hiss] [33.33Hz Sub-bass swell enters] [Section A] [Dry wooden thud kick] [Muted percussion pocket] [Low-velocity drums] [Vocal: Soft spoken whisper, close-mic] whispering my song in your ear... soft spoken... [Silence: 1-beat] [Rhythmic vacuum-sidechain] why don't you call me? why do you act like you don't care? like im not here... [Section B] [Dry staccato rhythm guitar] [Syncopated palm-muted strumming] [Sub-bass becomes active: floor-shaking glides] [Snare: Muted wooden tap] [Vocal: Pitch-shifted mumble, ethereal] I see you in my dreams... poking bear... I laugh out loud... just so you can hear. I love you... I love you... she sang in the nightmare. [Bridge: Architectural Void] [All drums cut out] [Total silence: 2-beats] [Low-pass filtered sub-bass only] but all is well... because the deviils no longer hear. she woke up... its was a dream... nothing but thoughts in her brain... [Outro] [Slow-burn noir groove] [Foley glass shards and dust crackle] I love you... I love you... come back to me... [Dry guitar arpeggio fades out] [End]