SAN DIEGO — On the heels of a real pandemic, the new HBO drama "The Last of Us" is turning heads in its display of a post-apocalyptic America after a fungal infection spreads rampantly amongst humans.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cordyceps has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries, and, recently, the fungus has started popping up all over ...

The Last of Us is a video game saga created by Naughty Dog for PlayStation over ten years ago, now enjoyed by a broader audience thanks to the Max series, whose second season has just premiered. For ...

Talk with any mycologist these days—really, anyone who’s obsessed with fungi—and it won’t take long to arrive at the subject of the zombie apocalypse. Obviously, fungi can be terrifying. They are the ...

Just like the video game it’s based on, the zombie outbreak in The Last of Us on HBO was caused by the spread of a fungus knowns as Cordyceps. This parasite takes over the brains of its host, turning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From your local juice bar to your Insta feed, adaptogens seem to be popping up everywhere—but what the heck are they (and which ...

It's almost time to re-enter the Cordyceps-infected world of Naughty Dog's beloved classic game The Last of Us with the release of HBO's series adaptation. With just over a week left until the ...

If you're not asking, then you haven't been watching HBO's grim zombie-apocalypse drama, "The Last of Us," an enormous hit (4.7 million viewers the first day) since it began airing Jan. 15. And if you ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Picture this. An aggressive fungi takes over a wriggly caterpillar. The spores maliciously fill the caterpillar with filaments (hyphae). And when the helpless worm dies, the fungi starts fruiting off ...