When The Last of Us first appeared on screens, it wasn't only the story that had viewers in its clutches — it was the ...

The zombie-ant fungus in The Last of Us is real-but not a danger to humans Learn what science says about Cordyceps fungal ...

With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity that the creators haven’t ...

Sex-crazed cicada Brood XIV will be emerging from their subterranean sleep pods extra hungry for love thanks to the spread of a zombie fungus.

When it comes to humans, cordyceps is used in treatments ... You can sleep easy knowing there won't be a fungus that turns you into a zombie in your cereal tomorrow morning. But COVID, researchers ...

It's not quite as bad as The Last of Us. But progress has been achingly slow in developing new antifungal vaccines and drugs.

Luckily, cordyceps don’t infect humans, so we have nothing to fear from them (except ... ants aren’t the only ones vulnerable to zombification — there’s another family of zombie fungi that targets ...

scars on a fossilized leaf made by the “death grip” of zombie ants that had climbed to their doom. Unlike Ophiocordyceps-infected ants, which depart their colonies and seek a lonely leaf or twig after ...

“The Last of Us” imagines a future in which global warming has raised Earth temperatures to a point where mutated Cordyceps zombie fungi could live comfortably in human hosts, but Quandt notes that ...

In The Last of Us‘ universe, spores grow fungus in human brains until they eventually take over, creating a kind of zombie. The infection can also transmit via the saliva of those infected ...