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BUZZING· 71%21m·2023-01-30·Science#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse
The World, the Universe and Us · 164
The new HBO series The Last of Us is making waves, raking in a steady stream of high reviews. Based on a game of the same name, it’s set in a world where a parasitic fungus called Cordyceps has mutated to infect and zombify humans. In this bonus episode of the podcast, Bethan Ackerley asks if this could actually…
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