Mushrooms

A study out of Tohoku University in Japan has found that there may be a link between eating mushrooms and avoiding prostate cancer.

The woman complained that her ear felt itchy and painful before she was treated by a doctor.

Even so, experts stress that no single food can, by itself, cut a person's risk of developing the disease.

Denverites will vote on decriminalising magic mushrooms this spring.

Campaigners say the drug is a safe and effective form of treatment for conditions including depression, anxiety and PTSD.

The bees' prevalence of Deformed Wing Virus decreased more than 800-fold.

Mushrooms have been used as food and sometimes as medicine for centuries.

Think beyond bulletproof coffee and turmeric lattes for your next cup of java.

"Fairy Lanterns" don't photosynthesize, but instead get their nutrients from fungi.

Each fungus targets a different species of ant, and it never ends well for the insects.

"Psilocybin may produce sustained changes in outlook and political perspective."

Soon there may always be a fungus among us.

It's a different type of Christmas magic.

The winner "by far" was the wild porcini mushroom, which is convenient since it's also delicious.

Mayoral candidate says the fungi saved him from heroin.

People who used drugs like magic mushrooms or LSD were 12 percent less likely to have assaulted someone and 18 percent less likely to have been arrested for violent crime.

"I feel like having my mind blasted by a highish dose of psilocybin while the moon's shadow befalls the earth will be an otherworldly experience."

Only 0.2 percent of people who tried shrooms within the last year wound up in the emergency room, according to the Global Drug Survey.

How exposure to allergenic foods may prevent food allergies is among the things we learned in Tech & Science this week.

The drug could be used to help treat anxiety and depression in the future.

Only 71 of the estimated 5 million species of mushrooms out there glow.