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‘The Last of Us’ is not a documentary. The show’s writers took a bit of creative license with how the ‘zombie virus’ infects ...
Why don't zombies eat each other? How hard would it be to claw out of a grave? How long can you live on brain? Scientific answers to zombie-related questions.
The rotting flesh, the shuffling walk, the unintelligible groans — it's not hard to spot a zombie at a glance even among the most gruesome of Halloween monsters. Neuroscientists Bradley Voytek ...
But since zombies don’t breathe or have heartbeats, the core function of the zombie’s existence is controlled by the part of the brain that controls appetite: the hypothalamus (3).
So-called “zombie genes” are switched on after your brain dies. These are glial genes responsible for taking care of damaged brain tissue. The researchers studied samples from patients ...
Two words: zombie fish. Just when you thought the ambling undead genre had run out of brains to chew on, Aussie filmmakers Michael and Peter Spierig add a new comic element (aquatic zombies!) and p… ...
A team of Yale University scientists were able to restore some function to a dead pig’s brain four hours after it’d been decapitated, a new study published in Nature on Wednesday said. … ...
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 accelerates the rate of premature aging in the brain. But what if there was a way to turn back the clock?
Researchers investigated whether cells in the brain that are neither functioning nor dead could play a part in the development of age-related diseases.
Culture Zombie beer brewed with real brains (yes, braaaains) A beer brewed to honor the season finale of "The Walking Dead" takes the zombie trope literally and uses actual brains as an ingredient.
The rotting flesh, the shuffling walk, the unintelligible groans — it's not hard to spot a zombie at a glance even among the most gruesome of Halloween monsters. But what's going on inside their ...