An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Martin Cheek, a conservation botanist for the Royal Botanic Gardens, about new plant and fungus species he and his colleagues discovered this year. We're at the end ...

These same ergot alkaloids were modified by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann when he invented LSD in the late 1930s. Hoffman ...

Or have you had an experience where your plant wilted and died despite you providing it with adequate light and water? Well, chances are that the answer to both these questions is some fungal ...

Hidden in the seed coat of a common plant, an elusive fungus has finally been found. It may lead to better treatments for ...