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 ...

A hiker (C) is guided out of the Slide Mountain Wilderness near Giant Ledge in New York. Photo by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Sept. 8 (UPI) --Four hikers, lost in the New ...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its evolutionary purpose may be to deter mushroom-munching insects ...

Two paths lead to the same molecule: Independently of each other, different genera of "magic mushrooms" have developed two different enzyme pathways that produce the same psychoactive substance, ...