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Those "magic mushroom" edibles may contain a lot more than manufacturers are letting on — if they're not complete bogus.
Brain

Scientists Tested What’s Really in “Psilocybin” Chocolate and Found Something Alarming

By Frank Landymore

AI has taken on a new role for some users: one of a psychedelic "trip-sitter" who guides them through their hallucinogenic journeys. 
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Taking Massive Doses of Psychedelic Drugs and Using AI as a Tripsitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using mushrooms, scientists have created a living, plastic-like compound that uses unique fungal properties to mold into almost any form.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create Living Plastic Alternative

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX's new Fram2 mission is experimenting with growing mushrooms in microgravity — but not the magic kind.
Off-World

Astronaut Insists the Mushrooms He’s Growing in Space Are “Not the Ones You’re Thinking”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over on Facebook, the latest frontier of AI misinformation is taking the form of a wizened old wizard who gives bad mushroom advice.
Meta

Facebook Adds Bot to Mushroom Foraging Group That Urges Members to Eat Deadly Fungus

By Noor Al-Sibai

Engineering researchers at Cornell have come up with a novel way to control a walking robot: with mushrooms.
Robotics

Scientists Grew a Mushroom Into This Robot to Act as Its Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

People who have eaten one brand's mushroom-infused chocolate bars are getting sick — and some of them have had to be hospitalized, too.
Developments

People Who Eat This Brand of “Shroom” Chocolate Are Landing in the Hospital With Bizarre Symptoms

By Noor Al-Sibai

Therapists suggest in a new study that there are some intense drawbacks, on their sides and for patients, of psychedelic therapy.
Treatments

Therapists Warn That Taking Magic Mushrooms for Treatment Can Lead to Unwanted Romantic Feelings

By Noor Al-Sibai

When going on a nature walk, an Indian scientist discovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of it.
Science & Energy

Scientists Surprised to Find Mushroom Growing Out of Frog

By Noor Al-Sibai

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ate psychedelic mushrooms on a recent trip to China, but did not know they had hallucinogenic properties.
Science & Energy

US Treasury Secretary Says She Didn’t Know the Mushrooms She Ate Were Psychedelic

By Sharon Adarlo

On a recent trip to Beijing, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen feasted on Chinese wild mushrooms that are known to be hallucinogenic.
Science & Energy

US Treasury Secretary Reportedly Ate Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers in Austria are making biodegradable computer chip substrates out of the mushroom skin. The results are promising.
Science & Energy

Scientists Build Circuit Boards Based on Mushrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A psychedelic church is suing the city of Oakland and its cops for infringing upon their civil right to get high — as a religious sacrament, that is.
Health & Medicine

Church Sues Cops, Saying Psychedelics Are Its Sacrament

By Noor Al-Sibai

New reserach shows fungi and mushrooms create electrical pulses and may be communicating with each other, or talking to each other.
Environment

Scientist Says Mushrooms Have a Language They Use to Talk to Each Other

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Some users who've taken "magic" mushrooms have experienced "wood-lover's paralysis," also called WLP, and lose control of their body through temporarily.
Neuroscience and Brain

People Who Took Psychedelic Mushrooms Say They Lost Control of Their Bodies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to a new study, eating just 18 grams of mushroom a day, roughly the equivalent of two mushrooms, could almost halve the risk of cancer.
Cancer

Eating Mushrooms Vastly Cuts Cancer Risk, According to New Research

By Victor Tangermann