ZOMBIE SCIENCE

People who are skeptical that there ever could be anything even remotely resembling a zombie apocalypse point to the fact that, short of something supernatural, ...

In Northern Uganda, approximately 3000 children have become afflicted with what has been called “nodding disease,” or more colloquially “zombie disease.”  It only affects children, ...

A research team from 21st Century Medicine have managed to cryonically freeze a brain and recover it in near-perfect condition. Led by Massachusetts Institute of ...

Reports of the Zika virus have been widespread recently, prompting officials to declare an international public health emergency. Until recently, both the Centers for Disease ...

Earlier this month, the American Physical Society published a study in their online journal utilizing modern epidemiological and statistical techniques to explore the impact of ...

The psychological impact of the zombie apocalypse is a popular theme for both fiction and numerous scientific studies. But it is most often explored from ...

A new study published online by Nature, the international weekly journal of science, suggests that a long-standing cannibalistic ritual among the Fore people of Papua New ...

Known by doctors but not so much by lay-people is the fact that after several days of decomposition, a human body will often glow.  In ...

Distinguished neuroscientist Timothy Verstynen, professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, visited Google’s Cambridge, MA office on Halloween. He was there to discuss the book ...

We have covered extensively the Ophiocordyceps fungus that affects ants in the wilderness– one that takes over the brain of the ant, and makes it ...