A disease-causing fungus featured in the post-apocalyptic TV series The Last of Us could lead to a gamechanging cancer drug, scientists say in a new study. In the dystopian world of the TV series ...

A potentially lethal group of fungi called Aspergillus could spread worldwide, with the possibility of northerly shifts to ...

The hit TV series, ‘The Last of Us’, has captured the world’s imagination with its terrifying story of a zombie apocalypse caused by a mind-controlling fungus. In the show, a mutated fungus ...

HBO's TV series "The Last of Us" shows a world ravaged by a "zombie fungus" that has the ability to infect and control people's minds. While human mind–controlling fungi do not yet exist in real ...

The zombie-spider fungus, entitled G ... there's no risk of a human infection like in The Last of Us. At worst, you'll just rest a little uneasy knowing that this phenomenon exists.

"Then as he died, the fungus sprouted out of his body ... it inspired the popular video game-turned-hit-zombie-TV-series "The Last of Us."But as horrifying as the imagery is on screen and in ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

The outbreak that causes the entire world to collapse in The Last of Us comes from a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus, and our non-zombie zombies come from this fungus and the infection it ...

Season two of The Last of Us just ended, and to say the story has gone in some new directions is an understatement. The HBO series starring Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal continues to push forward with ...

In the dystopian world of the TV series, a heat-adapted version of the cordyceps fungus takes over humans ... researchers write in the study. The Last Of Us teaser Cordycepin is converted to ...