A team from Empa is creating luminous wood by using honey fungus, which glows thanks to a natural bioluminescence process.
The team hopes that the biohybrid wood could be used to create building materials that double as sustainable light sources.
Citizen scientists have helped shed light on a "humungous fungus" that can kill off common plants. The honey fungus often appears at the start of autumn, when honey-coloured toadstools appear on ...
"It is always around the 15th October that, seemingly out of nowhere, the honey fungus suddenly appears in the woods. I am always very excited at the sight of a colony, still with closed caps ...
Working on the likes of turkey tail fungus is a departure for the scientist, who has spent years researching honey fungus. Honey fungus is a killer of hedgerows, shrubs and trees and there is no cure.