In a snow-covered village on the northern outskirts of Moscow, Russia’s most famous mycologist, Mikhail Vishnevsky, poured me a cup of light psychoactive mushroom tea. But it wasn’t psilocybin, the ...

THIS year has been a particularly good year for the Fly Agaric Toadstool which has been made famous in children's stories because of its and white speckled appearance. In all the nature reserves, the ...

A spate of poisonous toadstools straight out of a fairytale or a Mario game have been popping up around Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border, risking the health of foragers. These ...

A week of rain capped by a deluge from slow-moving thunderstorms brought seven mudslides into the Middle Fork Valley in the San Juan Mountains. The same rains triggered the appearance of many species ...

Colin Davidson has previously received funding from the NIH (USA) and the EC for projects related to drug abuse. He is currently a consultant on novel psychoactive substances for the Defence Science ...

Every mind-bending molecule in nature has an evolutionary origin; a defense against being eaten, a lure for pollinators, or perhaps a happy biochemical accident. Though they seem extraordinary, life ...

My former neighbor Mike Corse, owner of Canton-based Deep Root Mushroom Farm, suggested I write about a Christmas fungus that could account for some of the magical features of that holiday tradition.

On Friday, Sept. 13, Arizona Highways magazine announced its October 2013 edition would not be available on newsstands because the magazine mistakenly identified the fly agaric mushroom as edible.