NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — “Zombie Cicadas” may sound like something from a bad science fiction movie, but a parasitic fungus is infecting periodical cicadas. The infection looks gruesome, with large ...

Let's separate fungal fact from fungal fiction. Interestingly enough, scientists are not yet fully sure how cordyceps and other fungi like it perform this function. According to Bryn Dentinger, a ...

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On the surface, HBO’s “The Last of Us” may seem like pure science fiction — yet another zombie apocalypse scenario with mind-controlling fungi as the culprit this time. But as the second season ...

Imagine spending 17 years underground preparing for your big debut just for a fungus to ruin your moment. For some of the periodical cicadas of Brood X, there’s no need to imagine. It's their reality.

Mold samples from a home flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005; environmental molds can be a health risk for fungal infections. In the HBO science-fiction series The Last of Us and the video game of ...

As if the world today isn't strange enough, researchers have discovered a new population of cicadas that are being brutally infected by a parasitic fungus that controls their mind and forces them to ...

Cordyceps infects the brains of ants in the real world, so how plausible is the fungi apocalypse in HBO's hit new show? Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that ...

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