Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these ...

In this podcast, student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the Zombie ant-virus. Taryn Pollock is a student at South ...

The video game sequel led to death threats, toxic tweets and trans rows. Will HBO’s TV version escape the culture wars?

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 air-borne ...

The researchers found that climate change is contributing to the spread of harmful fungi, creating more favorable conditions ...

In a recent Nature paper, Dr. Kronstad and co-authors highlight a warming climate as a potential contributor to the spread of ...

As a landmark WHO report warns of a lack of treatments and diagnosis, we investigate a threat that now kills twice as many ...

After posting his discovery online, Jenkins was told that the creatures were infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – an ...

After posting images of his find online, he was told the spiders had been infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – the entomopathogenic fungus. Gareth Jenkins was working in a garden in Wanstead ...

The parasite, named Sirenobethylus charybdis after the seawater-swallowing monster from Greek mythology, may represent a whole new family of insects. S. charybdis lived 98.79 million years ago ...

The hit HBO series teamed up with Four Sigmatic on a cordycep-infused high-caffeine coffee ahead of the show's return on April 13.

HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us opened in an unlikely place. The series began in 1968 with an epidemiologist explaining ...