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 ...
Read More »FUNCTIONING HUMAN BRAIN IN A JAR
As we continue to explore the physiology of how zombies might be created (virus, fungus, radiation, electricity, man-made…) we continue to come across more and ...
Read More »MACABRE FRANKENSTEIN EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN DO AT HOME
As a follow up to an earlier article on Galvanism, I wanted to introduce you to a couple of macabre science experiments that you can ...
Read More »19th CENTURY GALVANISM MIGHT HAVE CREATED ZOMBIES
For those of you new to the term ‘galvanism,’ Zombie Research Society is here to educate. ‘Galvanism’ is a term often more connected to Mary Shelley’s ...
Read More »CYBORG JELLYFISH PAVES WAY FOR REBUILT HUMAN BODIES
Researchers at Caltech and Harvard have been doing some very interesting work in bio-engineering entire organisms using various tissues from animals and applying them to ...
Read More »CHICKEN LIVES FOR A YEAR AND A HALF WITHOUT A HEAD
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, ...
Read More »‘NODDING DISEASE’ AKA ‘ZOMBIE DISEASE’ IN UGANDAN CHILDREN
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, ...
Read More »ZOMBIES SHOULD GLOW IN THE DARK
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 ...
Read More »NEUROSCIENTISTS EXPLAIN THE UNDEAD
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 ...
Read More »MAX BROOKS AND EBOLA
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 ...
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