A team from Empa is creating luminous wood by using honey fungus, which glows thanks to a natural bioluminescence process.

Imagine a glow-in-the-dark designer desk, or wooden fence posts that guide you home with their eerie light. Scientists in ...

Wood samples treated with the honey fungus Desarmillaria tabescens glow green in the dark. As Swiss forests increasingly ...

Please verify your email address. Glowing Fungus is one of the many things that players can harvest while roaming around the ruins of post-war Appalachia. While it may not sound like the most ...

A team of scientists are looking into ways in which fungi could provide the world with an alternative light source.

Researchers at Empa are exploring a new concept for a composite material derived from hardwood: glowing wood. Besides its ...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have found a way to enhance the ...

A team of scientists are looking into ways in which fungi could provide the world with an alternative light source. Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and the Empa (Swiss Federal ...

Since more and more deciduous trees are being planted in Swiss forests, whose wood is often burned directly, innovative ideas ...