ZOMBIE SCIENCE

A recent article in LiveScience Magazine points out that mass extinctions of species throughout history have served as global reset buttons, allowing the earth to ...

The upside of swine flu is that although it’s highly contagious, it weakens as it spreads.  The upside of bird flu is although it’s very ...

In a recent joint study by Boston University and Harvard University, researchers found that drug resistant bacteria, called “supermutants”, are able to protect weaker members ...

The humor website, Cracked.com, recently published 7 Scientific Reasons A Zombie Outbreak Would Fail.  Though entertaining, the information therein is so grossly misguided that it ...

A contributing member of the Zombie Research Society, Sarah George, has put forth an interesting theory about zombie facial expressions.  George’s background is in animal ...

Science News reports that a new invention can find buried corpses at a good distance, and even through thick layers of construction material.  The method ...

Reader Janine C. recently asked, “How long can a zombie survive?”  Answering this question is at the core of the Zombie Research Society’s mission, and ...

We’ve already discussed the likelihood that zombies have a substantially shorter lifespan than a health living person, because their rotting body sinks a little further ...

Generally speaking, zombies in popular culture take on one of two forms:  1) the slow, lumbering zombie, or 2) the fast, agile zombie.  Each holds ...

It’s widely believed that that the driving force of a functioning zombie is its brain, so whatever root sickness causes zombiism is likely controlling the ...