Psychedelics may play an increasingly promising role in future healthcare practices, but there is one mushroom whose magic is so bizarre that it may usher in even more discoveries to come.

They appear to think that it is there for people to collect crop seeds after an unspecified apocalypse. That's... not what it's for.

Some of the first supernovae might have looked remarkably like this one, which was produced by a chemically simple star.

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