You are standing in front of two corridors in the ANU Forestry Building. Which one would you choose? Both are thoroughfares, running parallel, and will get you to the same place. What if you saw some green indoor plants hanging on the wall of one corridor - would that influence your decision?

Dr Craig Stewart used synthetic chemistry to explore how to produce new types of weed-killing plants derived from natural products.

A biogeochemist from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences, Dr Laura Otter studies nacre, the beautiful, iridescent coating you find on the outside of pearls and the inside of shells like oysters and clams.

Researchers are hopeful the new Ketowhistle could spare people living with diabetes from invasive tests and help them take control of their health.

“We don’t think much about trees, but there are all of these mysteries inside them. Unlocking those mysteries will kind of help us save the world.”

Insect specimens are sitting in museum drawers all over the world waiting to be investigated. But entomologists like Dr Yun Hsiao are up to the task.

Tranexamic acid is commonly used to limit bleeding during surgery, but its usefulness in emergency settings as a pre-emptive strike in life-threatening bleeding is controversial.

Pele Cannon lived with wolves in Colorado: here’s what she learned.

What’s the science behind these ghosts?