The team hopes that the biohybrid wood could be used to create building materials that double as sustainable light sources.

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

In order to defy climate change and the bark beetle, more deciduous trees are being planted in Swiss forests. If possible, ...

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

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

Empa researchers have developed bioluminescent wood by infusing hardwood with the honey fungus (Desarmillaria tabescens), a ...