With that in mind and with Halloween approaching, The Washington Post asked experts in several fields to address some zombie mysteries based on what is known about human bodies and brains.

If the TV show The Walking Dead is anything to go by, zombies love the smell of living human flesh. Therefore, Burks came up with the idea of a bio-based zombie repellent, or death cologne ...

If the US military goes on Zombie Conditions alert, Strategic Command is supposed to begin defensive operations to protect the human population and offensive operations to neutralize zombies by ...

Addicts digging up human bones as part of a recipe to make ... gave up his dreams after kush turned him into a “zombie.” “Because of drugs I did not concentrate on studies,” Bakhar told ...

Unlike Ophiocordyceps-infected ants, which depart their colonies and seek a lonely leaf or twig after zombification, fictional fungus-infected human zombies become deadly hunters of uninfected humans ...