A mushroom, called Lanmaoa asiatica, can cause you to see countless tiny people everywhere you look when not prepared correctly.

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its ...

The Shrooms Update landed in Schedule 1 on December 26, 2025, as part of the v0.4.2 patch, introducing mushrooms as a new type of drug that can be cultivated and sold. But to put the magic in your ...

JACKSON, MI – The city of Jackson effectively decriminalized mushrooms and other psychedelic plants and fungi. On Tuesday, Dec. 16, the Jackson City Council voted 4-2 to make purchasing, planting and ...

Introduction Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) represents a substantial public health issue, especially in oncology settings where it affects up to 30% of bereaved carers. Current best-practice ...

If there’s one ancient thing in this world, it’s the fear of death. Hundreds of practices (more or less grounded in reality) have developed throughout all civilizations to delay our final breath, ...

When I was 18, I bought a cheap ticket from my college class Facebook group to see Grimes perform at a nearby music festival. Amid the crowd on that sunny afternoon, a drug-addled man continuously ...

Researchers at the University of the Balearic Islands report that orally administered psilocybin produced rapid and durable antidepressant-like effects in adolescent rats, with changes in brain ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Compass Pathways, which ...

MARK BRODIE: Magic mushrooms are illegal in Arizona, but as my next guest found, that doesn’t mean Arizonans can’t get related products in retail stores. And it also doesn’t mean there’s consensus on ...

Two distantly related groups of mushrooms take radically different routes to producing psilocybin, a mind-bending molecule. By Rachel Nuwer No one knows why magic mushrooms evolved to produce ...