Fabrizio Alberti receives funding from UKRI through grants MR/V022334/1, BB/X018369/1 and EP/X039587/1, and from the British Council through grant 1203466293. Magic mushrooms have been used in ...

Mushrooms offer health benefits beyond their taste. Exposing them to sunlight creates a natural vitamin D source. UVB rays convert ergosterol into vitamin D₂ in their cells. Just 15 to 30 minutes in ...

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 ...

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for ...

Magic mushroom gummies are gaining attention for their therapeutic properties, particularly those derived from Amanita Muscaria and its extracts. Unlike the bitter taste often associated with ...

Bryan Cranston is remembering the first time he tried mushrooms with his Studio costars. While visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday, the actor expand that he’d never actually tried mushrooms prior ...

Four hikers who admitted to taking psychedelic mushrooms were rescued in New York’s Catskill Mountains after becoming disoriented and straying off the trail, officials said. It's the second such case ...

The hikers sent an alert that they were lost, with one hiker confessing they had “consumed mushrooms and one of them was experiencing a debilitating high" Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

That’s one long trip! A quad of boneheaded hikers had to be rescued by forest rangers after they suffered such a “debilitating psychedelic mushroom high” that they got lost in New York’s Catskill ...

A handful of natural psychedelics are decriminalized in Colorado, and psilocybin mushrooms are now commercially legal for therapeutic purposes. But, as with recreational cannabis, you should ...

Foragers look at late summer rains like dinner bells signaling a feast. When moisture collects in soil and decaying hardwoods, fungal mycelium sends up heavenly fruiting bodies that we like to call ...