Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Carolina leafroller cricket bristles with fungal fruiting bodies. The HBO series "The Last of Us" premiered on Jan. 15, and was ...

I have never really been interested in ghosts, mummies or zombies, not even at Halloween. But as October 31 approaches each year, I am reminded of a biological tale involving all three. It's the ...

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One of the freakiest sequences in the premiere episode of HBO’s The Last of Us takes place not when the hordes of mindless infected attack, but when an epidemiologist is asked for his thoughts on ...

Yes, the fungus is among us. The video game-inspired hit zombie apocalypse show “The Last of Us” draws its inspiration from our own reality and ecology: The show’s fatal fungus exists throughout ...

If you’ve been following HBO’s breakout hit The Last of Us—a story of people navigating a post-apocalyptic world where the cordyceps brain infection (CBI) has turned most of mankind into zombies—then ...

The parasitic fungus, Cordyceps, joins the league of Zombie fascination. The Cordyceps Brain Infection is the determining factor of wiping out human civilization in Naughty Dog's game The Last Of Us.

The HBO series "The Last of Us" premiered on Jan. 15, and was watched by 4.7 million viewers – one of the largest HBO debuts ever. Its storyline is a grisly one. A naturally occurring fungus known as ...

HBO's "The Last of Us" is a tale of a post-apocalyptic world that has been torn asunder by a global infection, caused by a mutant strain of Cordyceps fungus. The Infected turn into various types of ...