The University of Otago (Māori: 'Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo') in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 22,000 students enrolled during 2010. The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it employs.
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Pigeons can learn to distinguish real words from non-words by visually processing their letter combinations, surprising new research from the University of Otago in New Zealand and Ruhr University in Germany shows.
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2016
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Physicists at New Zealand's University of Otago have pushed the frontiers of quantum technology by developing a steerable 'optical tweezers' unit that uses intense laser beams to precisely split minute clouds of ultracold ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 31, 2014
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The naming of a new species of pāua further highlights the importance of biodiversity research in Aotearoa. Described in a study led by the University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2024
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Fur is a defining characteristic of mammals, coming in a wide variety of colors and patterns—thanks to a world-first study, we now know which genes make a marsupial's coat black or gray.
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2024
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Three small fossil penguin bones, collected in South Canterbury in 1987, are now shedding new light on how penguin wings have evolved. A new study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, describes a ...
Evolution
Aug 1, 2024
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An unexpected find has enabled important progress to be made in the battle against harmful bacteria. An international team of researchers, led by Professor Peter Fineran from the University of Otago, investigated a particular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 10, 2024
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University of Otago researchers have formally identified and named a fossil dolphin which they discovered has a unique feeding method.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2024
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An increase in pockets of open water in Antarctica's sea ice (polynyas) may mean coastal plants and animals could one day establish on the continent, University of Otago-led research suggests.
Earth Sciences
Mar 4, 2024
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Sensory cues from the opposite sex can influence how animals age, a University of Otago-led study has found.
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2024
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Turns out our love of sweet food goes back—way back—to our early primate ancestors, a University of Otago-led study has found.
Evolution
Dec 18, 2023
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