{"id":745990,"date":"2023-01-19T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=745990"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:27:12","slug":"the-fungal-zombies-in-hbos-the-last-of-us-are-based-on-real-horrifying-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=745990","title":{"rendered":"The fungal zombies in HBO&#039;s &#039;The Last of Us&#039; are based on real, horrifying biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the premiere of HBO&#8217;s big budget video game adaption &#8220;The Last of Us,&#8221; a scientist on a 1960s Dick Cavett-like talk show raises the idea that a fungal, not viral, infection will spell the end of humanity. On the surface, it&#8217;s laughable, and the idea is met with bemused laughter by the host and audience.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-01-fungal-zombies-hbo-based-real.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The fungal zombies in HBO&#8217;s &#8216;The Last of Us&#8217; are based on real, horrifying biology<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the premiere of HBO&#8217;s big budget video game adaption &#8220;The Last of Us,&#8221; a scientist on a 1960s Dick Cavett-like talk show raises the idea that a fungal, not&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}