The National Science Foundation recently funded science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students at Texas Tech University, to help them develop a computer system (supercomputer) ...
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I hesitated writing this article, so as not to add fodder to the ridiculous rumors surrounding Ebola and zombies, rumors that won’t die– like the ...
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To explain diseases to the masses, for the purposes of garnering support for funding and research, scientists often speak in terms of analogies. Cancer cells ...
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There is often a very fine line between myth and reality. Case in point. There are a number of psychoses with behavior connected to specific ...
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Zombie Research Society Exclusive The real-life story of the “walking dead” of Tana Toraja, Regency of South Sulawesi Island, Indonesia began with some misinformation regarding ...
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Contributing author Alfredo Torres is an adjunct professor of communications at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA where he wrote his master’s thesis on the ...
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Is the recent resurgence of zombies driven by a fear of new technology? An online series produced by PBS, known as the Idea Channel, recently ...
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