From being the main antagonist of a major video game and now television franchise, zombie fungus like cordyceps have quickly ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years.

With anti-fatigue, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer claims, are cordyceps, a parasitic fungi, the best superfood ...

The Cordyceps mushroom, an exotic fungus, grows by infecting insects with its spores. The spores use the animals’ bodies as all-you-can-eat buffets, feasting on their flesh.

Sneaky chemistry by a real-life “Last of Us” Cordyceps fungus mind controls its zombie insect victims by convincing them they’re starving.

The fungus, called cordyceps, doesn’t make undead zombies, but it does hijack the biology of its bug hosts, forcing the victim to do its bidding, then ultimately killing it.

So rest assured, while the Cordyceps fungus is real and can wipe out entire colonies of insects and ants in nature, it’s nothing humans should lose sleep over. The consumption of Cordyceps by ...

Cordyceps are a type of fungus, the spores of which infect different species of insects. When the insects become infected, their minds are essentially hijacked by the fungus; ...

He told ABC News that while fungus can cause hallucinations in people, "a human manipulating cordyceps is vanishingly unlikely." There are at least 150,000 known species of fungi, and only about ...

One talks about the Cordyceps fungus, which is known to infect and overtake ants, turning them into “zombies.” Can you explain that? In the first episode when the scientist talks about ants, he does a ...

Although cordyceps fungus has been used in TCM for over 5,000 years to treat Jing (aka the essence of the kidney), it didn’t garner too much attention from the Western world until 1993, says Traas.

Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus made popular by the HBO drama, can be added to coffee for a boost of brain energy. A few Texas cafes offer a safe space to try it out.