Credit: Empa/Cover Images Swiss researchers have developed a new kind of wood that glows in the dark. Scientists at Empa's ...

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 ...

Getting it to glow all hinged on a parasite known as ringless honey fungus, Desarmillaria tabescens, which produces luciferin. Under the right conditions, this luciferin glows as the result of ...

Your next home could have glow-in-the-dark wood pieces to help guide you to bed instead of lights. Here's how.

The glowing wood has been achieved due to honey fungus (Desarmillaria tabescens), a pathogen that causes white rot in trees. Some species produce the natural substance luciferin, which is ...

This has been achieved thanks to a parasite: The honey fungus is a pathogen that causes white rot in trees and is therefore actually a wood pest. Some species produce the natural substance luciferin, ...

Swiss researchers have developed a new kind of wood that glows in the dark. To achieve the breakthrough, they combined balsa ...

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

project head Francis Schwarze came to discover that the honey fungus turned out to be a particularly powerful producer of luciferin, which gives the 'shroom its magic glow known as "foxfire." ...