Vampire News spotted this interesting article on the Popular Mechanics website exploring the science behind vampire epidemic depicted in the futuristic movie Daybreakers, starring Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke and Sam Neil. How to Stop a Daybreakers-Style Vampire Epidemic Could real-life scientists stop a Daybreakers-style global outbreak without resorting to wooden stakes? “In this scenario, if [...]

No, this is not the plot to a new sci-fi horror flick! This is real scientific research as reported on by New Scientist magazine. Scientists have apparently isolated a gene that could be used to turn humans into vampires. While studying vampire bats they located a gene that evolved to help the tiny blood-suckers turn [...]

‘Vampire’ discovered in mass grave New Scientist | March 6, 2009 Magazine issue 2698. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. A SKELETON exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the “vampires” widely referred to in contemporary documents. Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found [...]

A friend of mine that works for the artificial intelligence company Cycorp, Inc. here in Austin, Texas told me the most fascinating thing today! The AI program they have been working on for the past twenty-five years has finally evolved to a point where it is becoming truly self aware and beginning to generate intelligent [...]

Um…hello? JURASSIC PARK? Eek! Scientists hope to clone extinct species TOKYO, Japan (CNN) Japanese scientists have produced clones of mice that have been dead and frozen for 16 years — a feat that could lead researchers to one day resurrect long-extinct species, such as the mammoth… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON CNN.COM [...]