While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

which results in him ending up trapped in the most sinister place in the world: the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. There, he meets a Black Stalker, the Zone’s dark guide and silent ruler.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Ahead of the return of the hit fungus-zombie horror series The Last of Us, scientists announced the discovery of a species of fungus that ...

A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become ...

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

TL;DR: A new fungus, G. attenboroughii, discovered in Northern Ireland, infects spiders, causing zombie-like effects similar to the zombie-ant fungus. It alters spider behavior to spread spores ...

Upon realizing they didn’t recognize the fungus, the BBC team sent a photo of the unidentified species to study lead author Harry Evans of the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences ...

It's the stuff of nightmares - or even the hit TV show and video game The Last of Us: a novel fungus that turns its hosts into "zombies". Thankfully, so far, it's only been found in spiders ...

The cave-dwelling spiders found scurrying around the White Father Caves, which lie beneath Cavan and Fermanagh, were found to be infected with a form of fungus dubbed Gibellula attenboroughii ...

The newest Fantastic Four movie is set to kick off Phase 6 of the MCU in July. The teaser trailer recently dropped, giving fans a first look at what to expect from this new reboot, while hinting how ...

Researchers discovered a fungus turning spiders into “zombies”, similar to the zombie ant fungus that inspired the ...