After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here. In the new season, five ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

Fungi adapt to heat, spread through spores, and may cause more fungal infections in a warmer, crowded, connected world.

Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

Here's why there are such a wide variety of symptoms associated with meningitis and why not every form of meningitis is ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or ...

The Last of Us series offers a different take on a zombie outbreak. Here's what you need to know about the Cordyceps fungus ...