(CNN) — Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation ...

About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms poking out of dark soil, picked one of the brown caps, and examined its ...

Magic mushrooms are quietly taking root across the Pacific Northwest. It happens every winter and spring when conditions are just right. After a few good rains, some cool nights, and a bit of sun, ...

A heat map of brain activity shows stable patterns before and after taking psilocybin in blue and green, while temporary changes are shown in red, orange and yellow. Sara Moser via Washington ...

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 ...

From cellular repair to cognitive resilience, researchers are exploring how psychedelics could influence the biology of aging. A 2025 study found that mice given monthly doses of psilocybin over 10 ...