INCUBATION PERIOD

Nearly every zombie film tells us that the zombie pathogen will spread rapidly throughout the human population. One single zombie can wreak havoc on an ...

Our research team has often suggested that the inevitable zombie apocalypse would be the result of scientific engineering rather than a naturally occurring mutation. Most ...

You already know the story of Typhoid Mary; an infamous Irish-American cook responsible for infecting more than fifty people with typhoid fever. During the twentieth ...

Scientists have recently discovered that hundreds of genes used in the growth and development of life begin functioning after death. The discovery, and subsequent papers ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...