RESEARCH NOTES

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski recently published an article (on BoingBoing) in which he examines a little discussed  zombie apocalypse topic.  Exactly  how would ...

Some time ago we published an article about a ceremony in Tana Toraja Regency of South Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, in which the deceased, having died ...