Magic mushrooms? You have gnome idea. Move over psilocybin — there’s a new psychoactive agent on the scene. A study published ...

Magic mushrooms have been used in traditional ceremonies and for recreational purposes for thousands of years. However, a new study has found that mushrooms evolved the ability to make the same ...

How can we live longer? The eternal question, and one that scientists have long been trying to answer. The research took place in two stages. The first part was a simple experiment, where researchers ...

Tracking microstructural shifts in nerve tracts The research team identified these anatomical modifications using diffusion ...

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways. Researchers in Germany and ...

"Magic mushroom" edibles sold at smoke shops and convenience stores are likely to contain no psilocybin but instead a range of undisclosed active ingredients, a study led by an Oregon State University ...

Google “grow your own magic shrooms,” and you’ll find no end of YouTube tutorials, online books, and less-than-reputable websites. But cultivating these fungi containing psilocybin, a psychedelic ...

Scientists have amassed genome data for dozens of “magic mushroom” isolates and cultivars, with the goal to learn more about how their domestication and cultivation has changed them. The findings, ...

Researchers in Australia have analyzed the genomes of over 100 commercial and wild-grown varieties of Psilocybe cubensis, a psychoactive fungi known as the magic mushroom. The findings may eventually ...

HUAUTLA, MEXICO — Alejandrina Pedro Castañeda opened a brown paper package and pulled out a handful of magic mushrooms, which many residents of this Indigenous Oaxacan town tenderly refer to as “child ...

Mushroom products purchased from smoke shops across San Diego await testing at Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs on the city's north side. (Hayne Palmour IV/For The Times) Beneath the psychedelic colors ...

How can we live longer? The eternal question, and one that scientists have long been trying to answer. But one new study seems to suggest that psilocybin, found in so-called “magic mushrooms”, could ...