When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...

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 ...

Trees play an essential role in regulating ecosystems, maintaining biodiversity, and mitigating climate change. Precise 3D models allow scientists to calculate fundamental parameters such as diameter ...

Olivia Goldhill focused primarily on covering the health crisis affecting American boys and men. She also covered psychedelic medicines. AbbVie’s purchase of Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals’ psychedelic ...

In Greek mythology it was Charon, the grim ferryman, who paddled souls across the rivers Styx and Acheron to the underworld. But the real-life ferryman transporting our human souls between the realms ...

Correa and Bergman are co-chairs of the congressional Psychedelics Advancing Therapies (PATH) Caucus. Mercer is a Marine Corps veteran and the executive director of Healing Breakthrough. After decades ...

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As Colorado sees growth in the licensed and legal use of psychedelic mushrooms, the University of Colorado Denver is stepping in to help train more people under state regulations. This could be a big ...

This story is part of The Trip, a CPR News series on Colorado’s new psychedelic movement. The University of Colorado Denver is accepting applicants for the state’s first and only public ...

In recent years, the conversation around psychedelic medicine has shifted from hushed discussions to headline news, with many media articles trumpeting positive scientific findings. Studies have found ...

Swedish hardware manufacturer Fractal Design is best known for its elegant computer cases, so I was fascinated to find that its debut headset – the Fractal Scape – maintains the company's refined ...

A once obscure traditional psychedelic plant from Africa has made headlines recently as Texas pushes for more research and a prominent Republican wrote a vigorous endorsement of its possible use for ...