Otago Science

Dunedin — Professor Dearden, Otago University, has received $11 million from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Enterprise (MBIE) to engineer wasps using gene drive technology.

By GE Free NZ
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Wanaka — NASA is planning two super pressure balloon (SPB) launches from Wānaka, New Zealand, in 2023, primarily to test the agency's SPB technology, but NASA also plans to fly a science payload as a mission of opportunity on each balloon.

By Queenstown Lakes District Council
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Alexandra — A Central Otago scientific research station with a globally revered reputation is marking its 60th anniversary.

By NIWA
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Wanaka — NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is back in Wanaka, New Zealand, for another flight test of its super pressure balloon, or SPB, technology to support science missions for longer flight durations, with flights running up to 100 days.

By NASA
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Otago — An ancient bird recently discovered at New Zealand’s most significant fossil site for land-dwelling animals has scientists scratching their heads.

By Canterbury Museum
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Dunedin — Three winners have been announced in the 2012 Scifest Science Idol competition in their age group category from 8 -14 yrs, 15-21 yrs and 22+ and win a brand new iPad thanks to KlabLab.

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Dunedin — New Zealand International Science Festival, 30 June to 8 July, Dunedin, New Zealand Ticket and booking details to all events for the eighth New Zealand International Science Festival are now available.

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Dunedin — Alice Roberts, popular BBC presenter and professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham, will attend this year’s eighth New Zealand International Science Festival.

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Dunedin — Older people cannot lie as convincingly as younger people, are worse at detecting when others are lying, and the latter is linked to age-related decline in emotion recognition, new University of Otago research suggests.

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Dunedin — University of Otago researchers have uncovered further evidence that PAX genes − members of a small family of genes that play important roles in embryonic development – also allow cancer cells to grow and divide in adult tissue.

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Dunedin — ‘Science diplomacy’, which has become the new catch-cry for international relations, will go under the spotlight at the University of Otago’s annual Foreign Policy School next month.

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Dunedin — The University of Otago announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Otago — New Zealand’s first symposium exploring how self-control in young children leads to better outcomes in later life is being hosted at the Wellington campus by Massey University’s School of Public Health on Monday.

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Dunedin — Professor Warren Tate of the University of Otago is this year's winner of the Rutherford Medal.

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Otago — Two University of Otago students have been awarded prestigious scholarships from the Rutherford Foundation to undertake their PhDs at the University of Cambridge in England, following in the footsteps of Lord Ernest Rutherford.

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Dunedin — In a major physics breakthrough with international significance, University of Otago scientists have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom – and have also seen and photographed this atom for the first time.

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Dunedin — University of Otago researchers have received major support from the prestigious Marsden Fund for a wide variety of innovative studies that will push the boundaries of current knowledge.

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Dunedin — A New Zealand environmental scientist has won a top international science prize for her contribution to the development of a simple, inexpensive test which measures arsenic levels in drinking water, and which has the potential to improve the lives of millions of people worldwide.

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Dunedin — A University of Otago international health researcher is part of a consortium that has successfully used genome scanning to identify a gene associated with increased susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) in African populations.

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Dunedin — Cutting-edge New Zealand genomic research is set to be boosted following the acquisition of a new DNA sequencer by the University of Otago.

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Dunedin — Researchers from the University of Otago, Christchurch’s, Van der Veer Institute have been granted $179,899 to investigate changes in the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease who suffer from anxiety.

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Dunedin — A University of Otago physicist is part of an international team that has developed the most efficient quantum “memory” for light in the world, an achievement that brings closer a future of super-fast computers and ultra-secure communications.

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