How to survive a zombie apocalypse

From a remote farmhouse to a shopping mall and even a bar, films are full of suggestions of where to hide out in the event of a zombie apocalypse. But researchers have developed an apocalyptic simulator that suggests the best thing to do is literally run for the hills - if you live in the US at least. Other advice from scientists-turned zombie experts, includes keeping silent and even mimicking zombie behaviour should you run into one of the fictional reanimated corpses with a taste for human flesh. Use the simulator below to start a zombie apocalyse. Physicists Alexander Alemi, Matthew Bierbaum, Christopher Myers and James Sethna of Cornell University, created a zombie simulator based on techniques used in in epidemiology – the study of how disease spreads – to work out how the apocalypse might play out in the US.