Now, thanks to The Last of Us HBO TV series, scientists who are experts on fungi are getting a chance to step into the pop-culture spotlight and share some of the more frightening realities of what ...

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Cordyceps mushrooms have boomed in popularity over the last few years, with people using it to help improve energy levels throughout the day, without having to worry about a caffeine crash. On top of ...

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Ellie’s immunity to the Cordyceps infection is an important part of The Last of Us game lore. In both the HBO series and the video games it’s based on, Ellie is the only person we know of who doesn’t ...

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 ...

Writer-producer Craig Mazin fact-checks the HBO premiere's eerie prologue ("It's real …"), plus discusses that perfect song choice at the episode's end. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large “If the world ...

Computational cordyceps. Fungus-powered logic functions. No, not a cynical Last of Us franchising spin off but the actual direction of research at the aptly titled Unconventional Computing Laboratory, ...

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