25 February 2015 — This article has been updated to better reflect the limitations of the study. A new species of lichen has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, according to a recent paper published in The Bryologist. Researchers led by...

One of life’s greatest challenges is learning how to confront death, the unknown, the state of un-being. Psychedelic substances offer one way to come to grips with the void, and this study published in the Journal of Cancer Research...

Over the past few years, there have been many studies devised for the purpose of assessing the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, a serotonin receptor agonist that is naturally found in various species of mushrooms. Researchers have investigated the efficacy...

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