This freaky slime mould from HBO's The Last of Us isn't a fungus at all – but it is a brainless predator
- Written by: Chris R. Reid, ARC Future Fellow, Macquarie University
Slime mould navigating a food grid.Chris R. Reid/Macquarie University, Author providedIn HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us, human civilisation has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change.
The show’s opening credits and creature designs are inspired by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum. But while...
