HBO’s The Last of Us might be a dystopian thrill ride, but how real is its core concept that a fungus could hijack the human ...

With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity that the creators haven’t ...

Season two of The Last Of Us is here – and yep, the fungus is still freaking us out. The HBO hit shows a world destroyed by a ...

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 creators of “The Last of Us” commandeered a fungus called Cordyceps as the scientific villain. It invades the characters, proliferates and eventually overtakes their brains. It looks like ...

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 ...

Their findings suggest that rising temperatures due to climate change could expand the fungus’s habitat by 77% by 2100. For fans of The Last of Us, this hits a little too close to home.

What happened to Joel and Ellie? Where are they? Is the Cordyceps brain infection still a problem? Catch up with everything ...