Wood-lover paralysis is a poorly understood syndrome related to consuming a native species of magic mushroom, with sufferers ...

Researchers at the Yale Program for Psychedelic Science and beyond have been exploring whether or not psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound derived from mushrooms, can be used as a treatment for ...

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 ...

A farmer is concerned for the safety of people foraging for magic mushrooms, which he has sprayed with herbicide, as a toxicologist warns about the dangers of fungi.

A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...