If you're like me, you've had a long withstanding date with the couch on Sunday nights to watch HBO's breakout show The Last of Us. The show is about how the human population fights to survive a ...

If you're even a casual science fan you've likely heard of the cordyceps fungi group before. The genus includes hundreds of known species, but the ones that get the most attention are those that ...

Some scientists have reassured "The Last Of Us" fans that the grim Cordyceps scenario will remain relegated to television.

The ants' locomotion systems are relatively simplistic, and Cordyceps has learned over the aeons how to operate the legs. This would be a stunning feat in itself, but the fungus also knows exactly ...

In the dense forests of South America and Southeast Asia, a parasite operates with chilling precision. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, often called the zombie-ant fungus, infects ants, invades their ...

SAN DIEGO — On the heels of a real pandemic, the new HBO drama "The Last of Us" is turning heads in its display of a post-apocalyptic America after a fungal infection spreads rampantly amongst humans.

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In one episode, a swarm of formerly human mutants emerge from a suburban crater with faces that seem to have burst outward into the kind of mushroomy blossoms you’d find under a log in the forest.

"The Last of Us" creator Craig Mazin said the Cordyceps fungus danger is "real." Mazin said that everything it does in the show, it does to ants. Mazin added that he doubts the Cordyceps fungus could ...