From Mouse to Patient: The Human Trial for Psilocybin and Chemotherapy Nerve Damage
Earlier this year, MD Anderson researchers showed that psilocybin could stop chemotherapy from damaging nerves in mice. Now the same team is testing it in…
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What a 12-Month Follow-Up Actually Tells You About Psilocybin and Depression
A May 2026 trial from Karolinska Institutet gave 35 people with depression a single dose of psilocybin or an active placebo, then kept following them…
The Silent Hunt: How Europe Forages for Mushrooms, Country by Country
A report on Spain’s autumn mushroom season is a reminder that wild mushroom hunting isn’t one European tradition but several, each with its own secrecy,…
A possible Solution to Oil Pollution: The Mushroom That Ate a Diesel Spill.
A 1999 experiment turned a pile of diesel-soaked soil into landscaping material safe enough for a state highway — using nothing but oyster mushroom mycelium…
Inside the Trip: The Largest Brain-Imaging Study of Psilocybin Ever Done
A five-year Monash University study scanned 62 people on psilocybin while they rested, meditated, listened to music, and watched a movie — and found that…
Psilocybin: The Mushroom Compound That Might Protect Nerves From Chemotherapy
A new study out of MD Anderson Cancer Center found that psilocybin, given to mice before chemotherapy, completely prevented one of cancer treatment’s most stubborn…
Lanmaoa asiatica: The Mushroom That Shows Everyone the Same Little People
A new scientific paper describes a fungus with a genuinely strange property: it reliably produces vivid hallucinations of tiny humanoid figures — and researchers can’t…
One Dose, A Month of Difference: How Psilocybin Leaves a Mark on the Brain
A UCSF and Imperial College London study gave healthy volunteers a single dose of psilocybin and kept measuring their brains for a month afterward —…