After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here. In the new season, five ...

The Last of Us series offers a different take on a zombie outbreak. Here's what you need to know about the Cordyceps fungus ...

This article contains spoilers for “The Last of Us,” particularly the end of Season 1 and some references from Episode 1 of ...

Cordyceps was not on the threat list - but it is absolutely real. The parasitic fungus infects and takes over the mind of insects, as it does to humans in The Last Of Us. "There are about 600 ...

The Last of Us Season 2 depicts a threatening fungus that weaves together life forms through unexpected connections. Within its gameplay, the game depicts a harmful plant-life organism that connects ...

She and one of her students found that the earwig—an insect that feeds on ... By figuring out which fly and fungus genes were active inside the fly’s head, they hoped to get a glimpse at ...

While the infected in the hit HBO show are shown as becoming more monsters than humans, Dr. Jim Kronstad said that it is not ...

The Last of Us is back on April 13 and this season is more realistic than ever. The trailer for the hit HBO series appears to show the “zombie fungus” cordyceps infecting humans by releasing air-borne ...

In a surprisingly large number of cases, insects are not acting of their own free will in a way that benefits themselves or even their species. Instead, they have become “zombies,” controlled by ...

The strange globes crowning Bocydium’s body resemble globs of Cordyceps, an insect-killing fungus common in rainforests. Though the pronota are large, they’re also hollow and lightweight ...

Several kinds of insects live only in association with one kind of fungus, and vice versa. In some instances the insect actively cultivates the fungus, browsing on it and controlling its growth By ...