In the remote, high-altitude pastures of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and India, the cordyceps is known by the Tibetan phrase yartsa ...

Cordyceps may enhance the body's production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule critical for energy delivery to ...

It’s rather terrifying stuff. Cordyceps fungi are even used in the video game and TV show, The Last of Us, where the fungus infects human hosts and creates the end of the world. Luckily, cordyceps can ...

We’ve got a couple of months before the second season of The Last of Us premieres, but with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, there are other uses for the dread fungus cordyceps that may ...

A fan customized a DualSense controller based on The Last of Us with Cordyceps fungus, bullet casings, and a Firefly logo. The controller gained popularity, with the maker confirming comfort and ...

What If You Were Infected by the Cordyceps Fungus? Posted: January 23, 2025 | Last updated: January 23, 2025 "Culture Quest explores the world of pop culture, history and thought-provoking ideas ...

In the high Himalaya, what looks like a small, yellowish-brown tuber is worth its weight in gold. The film follows the poor ...

In an Irish cave, a TV crew found a dead spider covered with a fungus. The fungus turned out to be a new species that turned its victims into zombies.

The discovery of so-called ‘zombie spiders’ in a network of caves that lie beneath an Irish prison has caught the attention ...

A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland cave turning them into The Last of Us-style “zombies”. Researchers ...

Introduction Fungi, known as functional mushrooms, are praised for their health benefits and nutritional worth. Functional mushrooms are used i ...