Analysis of a 100-million-year-old grass specimen by researchers at Oregon State University identified a fungus growing on it that's similar to ergot, from which LSD is derived. Grass-eating dinosaurs ...

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 ...

The fossil (pictured in this flickr photo from the Oregon State University) comes from Myanmar and was analyzed by researchers, from Oregon State University, the USDA Agricultural Research Service and ...

Corinne Hazel, a WVU environmental microbiology major from Delaware, Ohio, has discovered a new species of fungus that may treat a variety of medical conditions. [ Related: Lion’s mane mushroom shows ...

In recent years, scientists have found some success in treating mental health disorders like major depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) with hallucinogens like ...

Cuba, reputed for supplying highly-trained medical doctors to other countries and for its advanced domestic pharmaceutical industry, has long counted vaccines and medical services among its top ...

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been discovered on the morning glory vine after decades of searching. Almost a ...

Oregon State University researchers have analyzed an amber fossil of the oldest known grass specimen, shown on its side, tipped with the hallucinogenic fungus ergot, at right. (Oregon State University ...

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 ...

(NEWSER) – If you're glad you weren't on the planet in the days when Stegosaurus was whipping its spiked tail around in agitation, imagine the dino stumbling around with its eyes ablaze on the ...

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday ...