A type of “magic mushroom” is gaining interest in the United States, but scientists at UC San Diego warned Monday it may not be the one people think they are purchasing. In a paper published Monday in ...

This is giving business trips a whole new meaning. People are turning to psilocybin to help them climb the career ladder — and making a vacation of it by attending cushy retreats, sometimes dropping ...

About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms poking out of dark soil, picked one of the brown caps, and examined its ...

US tech entrepreneur and anti-ageing influencer Bryan Johnson — best known for spending millions annually to reverse his biological age — has now experimented with magic mushrooms as part of his ...

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 ...

Food products made by a Los Angeles-based company contained a synthetic form of psilocin, an illegal psychedelic compound, health officials said.

Scientists have amassed genome data for dozens of “magic mushroom” isolates and cultivars, with the goal to learn more about how their domestication and cultivation has changed them. The findings, ...

Magic mushrooms contain the hallucinogens psilocin and psilocybin, but supposed magic mushrooms edibles sold in smoke shops can contain a range of other natural and synthetic drugs. Provided by KCSO ...