Are fungi conscious?

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

Medicinal mushrooms are having a moment. Fungi experts Christopher and Katherine Parker dig into their favorite functional varieties and unearth the research that shows why these mushrooms matter

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Meanderings we couldn’t fit into the issue, but which seemed terribly important at the time...

Lynn Farram and the congregation of Christ Church, Norris Green, Liverpool

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b