To protect themselves from bad luck this year, those born in the Year of the Snake should wear red throughout 2025.

Inside the historic Printers Building in downtown Worcester, hundreds of edible mushrooms are proliferating in a former storage room. Oyster, shiitake and lion’s mane species grow out of sawdust ...

Swiss artists discovered glowing mushrooms in Zurich forests, identifying a new bioluminescent species, Mycena crocata.

Middle-aged mice fed golden oyster mushrooms had healthier hearts, suggesting an antioxidant in the fungi protects against the effects of ageing ...

Fungi could be used to power batteries in remote ... and so help to break down the battery after use. Big mushroom-powered electronics are still a stretch, as these living cells do not produce ...

Those populate stores even though they’re “not considered legal ingredients by the FDA,” says Shawn Hauser, a partner at the Colorado-based law firm Vicente, which focuses on psychedelics, cannabis ...

Fungi could be used to power batteries in remote regions thanks ... and so help to break down the battery after use. Big mushroom-powered electronics are still a stretch, as these living cells do not ...

Cultivated fresh mushrooms are available all year. Wild mushrooms are at their peak in autumn although some, such as morels, are found in spring. Dried mushrooms are available all year round.

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mushrooms are everywhere — on forest floors, in gardens, in networks connecting below our feet. The largest organism ...

Unlike psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, Amanita muscaria isn’t listed as a controlled substance. It’s advertised as an ingredient in some edibles, which are touted as ...