Researchers are developing field tests they hope will spread the fungi to beetles in the wild using “autodissemination” ...

For the first time, scientists found a way to produce a novel material out of wood and a bioluminescent fungus. They made wood that glows bright green. Fungal researchers from Empa’s Cellulose & Wood ...

Q: We had a large liquid amber tree removed from our front yard in Santa Cruz, Calif., about three years ago after the roots invaded the sewer line and raised the concrete driveway. The stump was ...

As the primary decomposers of organic material in terrestrial ecosystems, fungi are critical agents of the global carbon cycle. Yet our ability to link fungal community composition to ecosystem ...

Dead and decaying wood in the garden is home to a teeming community of organisms. So a slowly decaying pile of logs, a tree stump, section of ...

In collaboration with scientists from the University of Würzburg, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...

Credit: Empa/Cover Images Swiss researchers have developed a new kind of wood that glows in the dark. Scientists at Empa's Cellulose & Wood Materials lab in St. Gallen, Switzerland, combined balsa ...