When The Last of Us first appeared on screens, it wasn't only the story that had viewers in its clutches — it was the horrifying possibility: What if this really did happen? A world where a fungal mut ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 say, is proof we can't rest on our laurels when it comes to ...

The new season of HBO's popular series 'The Last of Us' could offer a glimpse into the future, as researchers have recently discovered that the Cordyceps fungus featured in the show is evolving in ...