Observations from Tomorrow.io microwave sounders paired with a machine-learning intensity-estimation algorithm from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies revealed the ...

Only four months after IO Biotech decided to halve its head count, the Danish biotech is already considering whether it must resort to further layoffs. In September, IO received a knock-back from the ...

Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in certain species of mushrooms that alters perception, mood and consciousness by acting on serotonin receptors in the brain, and it is ...

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Researchers found that magic mushrooms and fiber caps independently evolved different biochemical pathways to create psilocybin. This convergence shows nature’s ingenuity, but the reason why remains ...

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Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and compressed. Heat generated by these contortions has melted pockets of the moon's ...

Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom that produces the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Felix Blei / Leibniz-HKI Researchers don’t know exactly how psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in psychedelic ...

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 ...

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways. Researchers in Germany and ...

Two paths lead to the same molecule: Independently of each other, different genera of ‘magic mushrooms’ have developed two different enzyme pathways that produce the same psychoactive substance, ...

Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edible products sold in Portland, Ore., and found no trace of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound that gives magic mushrooms their name. Instead seven of the ...