Season two of The Last of Us just ended, and to say the story has gone in some new directions is an understatement. The HBO ...

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

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 ...

After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here ... For fans of the show’s lead villain, Cordyceps fungus, there’s also reason to celebrate.

However, The Last of Us imagines a scenario where global warming allows the Cordyceps fungus to adapt and infect humans, causing the same effects observed in insects. For now, this remains purely ...

The Last of Us is back on April 13 and this season is more realistic than ever. The trailer for the hit HBO series appears to show the "zombie fungus" cordyceps infecting humans by releasing ...

Research lead Dr. Norman van Rhijn referenced hit show The Last of Us, which is about a fungal infection causing an apocalypse, saying “reality is already scary enough” A type of fungus that ...

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.