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The Last Of Us has mad audiences wary of eating mushrooms, but how realistic are the cordyceps spores shown on the hit HBO ...

People have likened the 'killer fungus' to something seen in the TV show 'The Last Of Us,' and researchers have warned it's ...

Learn how some fungi turn insects into zombies, others infect humans, and how they can’t be killed with drugs.

Scientists in Montana develop fungi-based building material that could lead to sustainable, self-repairing "mushroom houses" ...

Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Heilongjiang Province, College of Plant Protection, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China ...

A research team in Montana grew dense, spongy tangles of mycelium — the rootlike structure that connects fungal networks underground — as a framework to create a living, self-repairing ...

a real fungal group that infects ants, takes over their brains and bodies, and turns them into spore factories. But this isn’t the only example of real-life zombies. Science writer Mindy Weisberger ...