Mushrooms could be communicating in a structure that resembles human language, suggests a study published in the Royal Society Open Science . Professor Andrew Adamatzky analysed the electrical signals in fungi and found patterns that have a structural similarity to English and Swedish languages at the University of the West of England's Unconventional Computing Laboratory.

A new industry-academic partnership between the University of Oxford and biopharmaceutical company NuCana as found that chemotherapy drug NUC-7738, derived from a Himalayan fungus, has 40 times greater potency for killing cancer cells than its parent compound.

I have done field work in the Mazatec region since 2009, and in all these years, I have only seen two types of psilocybin mushrooms for sale in the city of Huautla de Jiménez. However, the article " Seeking the Magic Mushroom " (1957) describes the use of at least seven different species of psychoactive mushrooms in Mexico.

Eat and Drink In 2014, Liz and Michael Nail founded Mile High Fungi, a Conifer farm bringing cultivated and wild-grown mushrooms to local tables. * Liz Nail has a confession: When she went to college, she sorta, kinda, didn't like mushrooms. But one night at a potluck dinner with friends, she saw her peers eating chanterelles and thought maybe they were worth trying again.

Source: Neuroscience News A small-scale study conducted by researchers at Yale University reveals psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound in "magic mushrooms", appears to be effective in the treatment of migraine disorders. Previous studies have shown psilocybin to show promise in the treatment of migraines and cluster headaches, but most of the results have been anecdotal.

Growing mushrooms can be complicated- but it doesn't have to be! In this video, I go over one of the simplest methods of growing mushrooms that pretty much a...