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 ...

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The hit TV series, ‘The Last of Us’, has captured the ... The series is inspired by a real fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, known as the "zombie-ant fungus," which takes over the bodies ...

Following the immense success of The Last of Us and a few events that have occurred in the past couple of years, audiences are curious if a situation like the one depicted in the HBO series can happen ...

And maybe we should start with ophiocordyceps. This is the fungus that inspired The Last Of Us. How does it work? What’s its deal? MINDY WEISBERGER: OK, so with ophiocordyceps, what happens is an ant ...

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 ...

In the opening scene of the first episode of the TV series "The Last of Us," two researchers discuss the potential for a global pandemic on a fictional 1960s talk show. One puts forward the theory ...

The natural phenomenon of certain types of cordyceps fungus taking over the nervous system of other living things, like ants, has been ... streaming series The Last of Us, which is of course ...