Ancient Greek priestesses may have used hallucinogenic ergot during the Eleusinian Mysteries, rituals carried out by the cult ...

The idea isn’t brand new, but the work gives the debate a fresh jolt because it tests a concrete preparation method rather than leaning on vibes, metaphors, or modern wishful thinking. Coverage by ...

A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered -- about 100 million years old -- and even then it was topped by a ...

Scientists now think that large-bodied, long-necked sauropods probably ate the same fungus that is the precursor to the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Getty Images The tip of this 100 million-year-old piece ...

As far as the medical profession is concerned, that shrewd controversy raised by Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer of crude ergot, and Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Columbia University pharmacologist, ...