ZOMBIE SCIENCE

Always the eloquent Max Brooks has stepped forward to explain why the Ebola epidemic is NOT the World War Z epidemic. Reuters: My fictional plague ...

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) ...

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 ...

Fear is a psychological mechanism the brain employs to keep us alive.  It often manifests itself in a “fight or flight” reaction– fight the barking ...

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 ...

Last week we reported on US Health Agencies’ intention to grant  an exclusive license to a Minnesota company, to develop a vaccine for Ebola; one ...

The average human is able to get about six hours of sleep per night with no distractions. So how many hours of sleep do you ...

In a case where reality is stranger than fiction,  it has come to light that the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of ...

Earlier this month, the federal government quietly announced that they had discovered a number of vials containing the deadly smallpox virus in an unsecured laboratory ...

Whether the undead feast on our brains or the flesh of the living, one thing is certain; zombies eat people. But if a simple scratch ...