In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

The researchers found that climate change is contributing to the spread of harmful fungi, creating more favorable conditions ...

The premise of zombie fungus can quickly turn into a horror story when reimagined as a sci-fi creature infecting humans, such as in the HBO series “The Last of Us,” said to have been inspired ...

We got an idea of the fungal genes that turn ... best-known zombie fungus, it’s certainly not the only one. “This happens so much in nature, maybe more than we [will] ever realize,” said de Bekker.

In The Last of Us‘ universe, spores grow fungus in human brains until they eventually take over, creating a kind of zombie ... rather than turn into Bloaters, people infected for over a year ...

You probably thought that was all a bunch of make believe – mushrooms turning people into ... that the creatures were infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – an entomopathogenic fungus which ...

Chinese factories are producing thousands of tonnes of a "green zombie fungus" to help fight the ... companies to modify their genes to turn them into more deadly or precise killers.

Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death ...