Scientists discover mushrooms independently evolved psilocybin twice, revealing convergent evolution and new insights into ...

Researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI discovered that Psilocybe and Inocybe mushrooms ...

A 95-million-year-old crocodyliform fossil, affectionately nicknamed Elton, was discovered in Montana by student Harrison ...

About 95 million years ago, a juvenile crocodyliform nicknamed Elton lived in what is now southwest Montana at the edge of ...

This concerns the biosynthesis of a molecule that has a very long history with humans," explains Prof. Dirk Hoffmeister, head of the research group ...

Schäfer T, Haun F, Rupp B, Hoffmeister D (2025) Dissimilar Reactions and Enzymes for Psilocybin Biosynthesis in Inocybe and Psilocybe Mushrooms. Angew Chem Int Ed, ...

For a long time, gene loss was seen as a kind of biological decay, but a new study shows it can be just the opposite: a smart ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Celebrate International Red Panda Day 2025 with fascinating facts about the rare Himalayan animal, its unique traits, ...

A German-Austrian team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI has been able to biochemically demonstrate for the first time that different types of mushrooms produce the same ...