The fungus is like something out of a horror movie: The organism hijacks the body and brain of its ant host, mind-controlling it into abandoning its nest and climbing a nearby tree. There, the ...

HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us premiered last week, and for the wellness hags among us who never played the astronomically best-selling video game, it brought an unsettling surprise. The season ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and ...

As the climate warms the planet and temperatures rise, some fungi are figuring out how to exist at higher temperatures than they usually like. Enter zombie concerns. Some real-life fungi are already ...

They're not always beautiful, but the wonders of the natural world provide a rich pool of material for researchers to flex their hands with the more creative side of scientific fieldwork. In the third ...

João Araújo finds zombie ants fascinating — not just because of their parasitic situation, but because they can be found in your backyard. “I found one last week literally by my door,” said Araújo, a ...

Hijacking the body of another animal is nothing new in the opportunistic world of parasitism. But for the first time, scientists have observed how one crafty flatworm can switch ‘zombie mode’ on and ...

In Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless, the naturalist and forager reveals connections between the human and fungal worlds. How did you come to have a passion for fungi? I’m a sucker for the underdog and ...