Some deadly mushrooms are easy to mistake for their tasty counterparts, resulting in several serious illnesses and one death ...

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Growing mushrooms at home is easier than you think. For many mushroom enthusiasts, the idea of cultivating mushrooms at home is both exciting and a little intimidating, especially for beginners.

I stepped out of the front door of my house on a soggy, cloudy morning. It appeared to have rained at some point during the night, but not heavily and probably not for long. The leaves in my driveway ...

Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom that produces the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Felix Blei / Leibniz-HKI Researchers don’t know exactly how psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in psychedelic ...

Tea, chocolate and coffee, but make it mushrooms. In July 2023, Jamar "Cash" West opened Mush Room. The Mush Room acts as a boutique store of sorts. West offers mushroom products as well as grow kits.

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 No one knows why magic mushrooms evolved to produce ...

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 ...

Joseph McKay, a retired New York City firefighter, sat across from a panel of state lawmakers in Manhattan on Tuesday and told them how magic mushrooms helped save his life. In his thick city accent, ...