Zombies are just regular people, or at least they were before - well, you know. With that in mind and with Halloween approaching, The Washington Post asked experts in several fields to address some ...

Have you ever wondered why zombies stagger around with their arms stretched out, clamoring through cemeteries in search of victims? And how come they refuse to talk, just moaning from time to time.

Think you’re an expert on zombies from Scooby Doo on Zombie Island and Dawn of the Dead? Well, can you produce a model the zombie brain? Neuroscientists Bradley Voytek and Timothy Verstynen are doing ...

Everywhere you look — in books, on TV, at the movies — zombies are lurching and limping about, making happy meals of people who aren’t quick enough to get out of the way. The public can’t get enough ...

The wait has been long, but the discipline of neuroscience has finally delivered a full-length treatment of the zombie phenomenon. In their book, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?, scientists Timothy ...

It's one of nature's most disturbing horror stories: a fungus takes control of a living ant and uses it to spread its spores through the colony. But now there's a strange new wrinkle to the story, as ...

One of the hallmarks of the zombie is its hunt for brains. This single-minded devotion to consumption was utilized to maximum social critique in George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, where hordes of ...

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 brain?

A parasitic fungus known to manipulate the brains of ants doesn't make slavelike "zombies" out of any old host. Instead, the microorganism is somehow able to recognize the brains of different ant ...