Researchers grew cordyceps mushrooms on six different kinds of insects. They found that mushrooms grown amid high levels of oleic fatty acid contained the most cordycepin, a potential therapeutic ...

The hit HBO show "The Last of Us" may have taken the world by storm this year (and the video game world nearly a decade ago), but the villain in the series has been around much longer than either of ...

If your taste in horror entertainment runs to post-apocalyptic sagas peppered with cannibals, the collapse of society, and mushroom-headed zombies, you could probably do worse than HBO’s adaptation of ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Under the shadow of Pinnacle Mountain, Jay Justice has been heading off the beaten path— in search of his lifelong fascination. "Here they is! Right here," Justice said, as he ...

Certain parasitic fungi, including species of cordyceps, infect insects and alter their behavior before killing them. After entering the host’s body, the fungus gradually spreads through internal ...

Fungi bursts from the head of a fly fossilized in 99-million-year-old amber. © Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS In ...

HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us opened in an unlikely place. The series began in 1968 with an epidemiologist explaining why his greatest worry for mankind was a parasitic fungus that could turn ...

If you've watched HBO's "The Last of Us," the sight of mushroom coffee or cordyceps supplements at the health-food store might set off alarm bells. In the show and video game's postapocalyptic ...

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