All posts tagged: Zombie

Would you have a boob job with ‘zombie filler’ – from a corpse?

Would you have a boob job with ‘zombie filler’ – from a corpse?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Would you want fat from a dead body pumped into yours for a little added oomph? It’s a morbid question many answered with a resounding “yes” when the so-called “zombie filler” slowly emerged on the US market in 2024. Today, stateside clinics now have months-long backlogs of plump-seeking patients waiting to get their hands on vials of sterilised cadaver tissue. Read: Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs) and boob jobs are now being sourced from the morgue. Zombie filler – real name alloClae – was first released by manufacturer Tiger Aesthetics to a select group of doctors across the pond in 2024. When people donate their bodies to science after their death for altruistic acts like organ donation, tissue banks often collect their fat, too. Tiger …

An Apocalyptic Zombie Novel for Subversive Millennials

An Apocalyptic Zombie Novel for Subversive Millennials

Published by José Betancourt

Severance by Ling Ma A send-up and takedown of corporate drudgery, late-stage capitalism, and adulthood listlessness familiar to so many of us, Ling Ma’s Severance serves up a wry and tense satire featuring an eerily monotonous pandemic. Candace Chen, a millennial publishing drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is so devoted to routine she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps across New York. But then it spreads beyond the city. Families flee. Companies hit pause. Subways squeak to a halt. In a heartbeat, Candace is uninfected but alone, wandering the streets to photograph the silent, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Even antisocial Candace can’t be content, much less survive, on her own forever. Enter a group of survivors led by power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers or cling to the only community …

‘Zombie’ ships reported in Strait of Hormuz as mystery grows | World | News

‘Zombie’ ships reported in Strait of Hormuz as mystery grows | World | News

Published by Sam Flores

The critical trade route has been blocked by Iran amid the ongoing conflict, sparked after the US and Israel carried out joint strikes on several key Iranian sites on February 28. Iran responded by hitting targets across the Middle East, plunging the region into conflict. Ensure our latest news headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. Click here to activate or add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings. Traffic through the strait has dropped significantly since the conflict started. But it has been reported that in the past week, a Japanese-owned tanker carrying liquefied natural gas and a vehicle carrier have passed in and out of the channel, Australian news site news.com reported. It is thought the ship had been decommissioned and scrapped for parts before the war broke out, but it appears that it has since resurfaced. A zombie ship is a vessel runs under the identity of a ship that has been officially retired – so an active ship using an …

‘Zombie’ cells created by transplanting genomes into dead bacteria

‘Zombie’ cells created by transplanting genomes into dead bacteria

Published by skeptic

Colonies of bacterial cells under a microscope. The blue colony is expressing the synthetic genome; the white colonies are Mycoplasma capricolum cells that survived the mitomycin C treatment Nacyra Assad-Garcia A living, synthetic cell has been made by transplanting a complete genome into a dead bacterium, bringing it back to life. The breakthrough could help synthetic biology live up to its huge, but still distant, promise of engineering organisms to create sustainable fuels, pharmaceuticals and new materials. Synthetic biology involves tweaking biological systems or creating new ones to introduce novel functions, such as rewriting yeast DNA so that the organisms make desirable chemicals. In an effort to make more versatile engineered microbes, in 2010 researchers synthesised a bacterial genome and then transplanted it into a living cell, creating what they called the first synthetic cell. But there was a problem. It was very difficult to be sure whether the cell was truly being governed by the synthetic genome rather than its original genome, because bacteria frequently absorb genetic material from the environment and add it …

Evolutionary psychology is unfalsifiable? New scientific paper aims to kill this “zombie idea”

Evolutionary psychology is unfalsifiable? New scientific paper aims to kill this “zombie idea”

Published by José Betancourt

Evolutionary psychology hypotheses can be rigorously tested, and sometimes decisively overturned, challenging the long-standing claim that the field is inherently unfalsifiable, according to a conceptual review published in American Psychologist. Since the 1970s, critics have contended that evolutionary explanations of human behavior amount to “just-so stories,” plausible but empirically untestable narratives flexible enough to accommodate virtually any outcome. Drawing on Popper’s philosophy of science, these critiques claim that evolutionary psychology fails the criterion of falsifiability and therefore lacks scientific rigor, a perception that has persisted both within academia and public discourse. William Costello, a doctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin explains, “As a graduate student preparing to go on the job market I am passionate about correcting the many misconceptions about evolutionary psychology that pervade academia and cultural consciousness. Evolutionary psychology is enormously explanatorily powerful for a wide range of domains, so it is frustrating to constantly have to contend with the decades old ‘zombie idea’ that its hypotheses are unfalsifiable. This false perception may also prevent younger scholars from embracing the …

Labour Called Zombie Government After Starmer’s 14th U Turn

Labour Called Zombie Government After Starmer’s 14th U Turn

Published by Sam Flores

The government is facing fresh backlash after U-turning on their plans to postpone elections for 30 local authorities. Labour originally offered 63 councils the chance to delay their May local elections amid wider plans to re-organise local governments. Ministers said 30 agreed to delay, pointing to the cost of holding elections during the council rejig. But critics claimed the government’s move was motivated by a fear of losing those local elections, which Labour denied. However, local government secretary Steve Reed has now decided to “withdraw his decision” to postpone the elections “in the light of legal advice”. The reverse-ferret came as Reform UK prepared to take the government to court, so Nigel Farage is heralding it as a victory. The government is now looking to “agree an order” with Reform to end the case and has promised to “pay the claimant’s costs of these proceedings’. A total of 136 local authority areas across England will now hold elections in the spring – along with elections to the Welsh Senedd and the Scottish Parliament. The government …

“Primal” is a life-affirming zombie tale

“Primal” is a life-affirming zombie tale

Published by Sam Flores

Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal” continues his affinity for pitting his human-sized heroes against gargantuan foes. The historically anachronistic animated epic introduces its neanderthal champion, Spear, and his partner, a female Tyrannosaurus named Fang, as they find common cause in grief. Both lost their families to the same murderous pack of dinosaurs. Both realize that the only way they’ll survive the world’s savagery is to take care of each other. Throughout their adventures, Spear and Fang defeat or at least outwit enemies much larger than themselves, including a war-hungry Viking clan of enslavers and a tyrannical Egyptian conqueror. But in his third season return, Spear has been made into a version of the things he once fought. Now he’s the fearsome monster who can’t quite remember the man he used to be. Spear dies a hero at the second season’s close, only for a shaman to reanimate him in the third season premiere as a zombie. Adversaries impale him. Beasts try to shred him. But Spear is undead, impervious to pain and virtually unkillable, pushed to wander …

Zombie fungus, ‘living stones’ among favorite botany discoveries of 2025

Zombie fungus, ‘living stones’ among favorite botany discoveries of 2025

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It’s easy to forget how much we still don’t know about our planet’s ecosystems. Every year, researchers identify thousands of plant and fungi species that were previously unknown to science. While it can be tough to highlight the most striking examples, an international team of scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) in London, have offered their personal picks for 2025. The selection of spider-infecting zombie parasites, stone-camouflaged plants, and a “fire demon flower” is certainly worth a closer look. In Brazil, botanists described Purpureocillium atlanticum for the first time. This deadly fungus targets the region’s trapdoor spiders that reside in burrows on the rainforest floor. Once infected, P. atlanticum kills the arachnid after covering almost its entire body in fine threads of white root-like structures called mycelium. The fungus then grows a nearly 0.8 inch fruiting body through the trapdoor burrow entry. This extension eventually releases its own spores into a world of unsuspected spiders. The entomopathogenic …

Happy new year! Yungblud and Smashing Pumpkins release Zombie

Happy new year! Yungblud and Smashing Pumpkins release Zombie

Published by Sam Flores

‘Zombie’ is the most important song of IDOLS to me. It’s deeply personal and it was heavily influenced by The Smashing Pumpkins’ ability to mix emotion, cinema and heavy guitars. I sent Billy an email, asking if he would re-imagine this song with me and when he agreed to it, it was a dream come true. To watch one of my idols work on something that I had written was one of the greatest honours of my life. I love that this new version of ‘Zombie’ is heavier, it has Billy Corgan’s iconic guitar sound, it has more urgency and it rips my heart out. I’m so proud of it.” Source link

“Army of the Dead” is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration

“Army of the Dead” is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration

Published by Sam Flores

Every zombie fable boils down to insatiable hunger, both as it pertains to the undead and the forms it takes among the living. That part is where each story diverges. In George A. Romero’s 1978 masterpiece “Dawn of the Dead,” survivors took refuge in a mall, but they also hoarded its supplies. Zack Snyder’s contribution to the genre accentuates desperation. In his 2004 remake of “Dawn of the Dead” the zombies are sprinting, roaring killing machines that consume America before the opening credits roll. In their wake aftermath, hopelessness proves to be the slow, shambling, inescapable inevitability that does in everyone else. His latest, “Army of the Dead,” is not that film’s sequel. It could have been, since the main hero is a veteran of the so-called “zombie wars.” But the desperation evoked here is different, and relatable to everyone on the losing side of America’s expanding wealth gap. That describes almost everyone, including sidelined mercenary Scott Ward (Dave Bautista). With his friends Maria Cruz (played by Ana de la Reguera) and fellow soldier-for-hire Vanderohe …