Lanmaoa asiatica is a popular edible mushroom species sold in Yunnan that induces Lilliputian hallucinations when undercooked ...

Every year, hundreds of people in the Yunnan Province of China turn up to the hospital reporting the same thing: they ate a Yunnan bolete and then they saw little people. It’s surprisingly common. “At ...

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 ...

DENVER, CO - MAY 14: Mazatec psilocybin mushrooms during their 3 day drying time after harvest in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) The use of ...

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 ...

Two distantly related groups of mushrooms take radically different routes to producing psilocybin, a mind-bending molecule. By Rachel Nuwer See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Julian Mattucci, also known as “God Emperor Myco,” was creating new generations of spores from some Psilocybe subtropicalis mushrooms that he had procured online from a popular ...

Some Michigan lawmakers want to decriminalize possession of psychedelic mushrooms statewide for people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Advocates for the legislation introduced ...