Paul Stamets has been a forty year overnight success. Fresh on the back of $60 million of new investment for his start-up MycoMedica, the undisputed magic mushroom king is firing on all cylinders this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of the dozen or so common, woodchip-loving urban mushrooms that grow in the Pacific Northwest, there are three that are of ...

Two new species of psychoactive mushrooms in the genus Psilocybe have been described from southern Africa, bringing the list to six known species indigenous to Africa. Psilocybe species are among the ...

Psilocybe fungi, known colloquially as "magic mushrooms," have held deep significance in Indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica for centuries. They captured the wider world's attention as a psychedelic ...

“Magic mushrooms” have fascinated humans for centuries, not only for their psychedelic effects but also for their potential in treating depression. Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena ...

The genomic analysis of 52 Psilocybe specimens includes 39 species that have never been sequenced. Psilocybe arose much earlier than previously thought -- about 65 million years ago -- and the authors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A species of mushroom has been found producing psilocybin using a completely different pathway to the one used by 'magic' ...

Somehow, for reasons that are still unclear, the natural world gave rise to tiny mushrooms teeming with the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Even more astonishingly, the ability to produce this ...

Learn how a newly identified mushroom species may reveal the evolutionary origins of Psilocybe cubensis, the world’s most widely cultivated magic mushroom. The world’s most widely cultivated magic ...

Newswise — Psilocybe fungi, known colloquially as “magic mushrooms,” have held deep significance in Indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica for centuries. They captured the wider world’s attention as a ...