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Toyota Boshoku Internships
Engineering students, welcomed by distinguished alumnus Dr Shuhei Toyoda, spent their summer working alongside employees at the Toyota Boshoku Corporation in Japan.
The rare molecule weighing in on the birth of planets
Astronomers have discovered a rare molecule in the dust and gas disc around a young star – and it may provide an answer to one of the conundrums facing astronomers.
Designing new hives could save honey bees
Derek Mitchell from the School of Mechanical Engineering has conducted research into how changing the design of typical man-made bee hives could increase the survival rate of honey bees.
Finding fast and accurate algorithms for the modern world
A new collaboration designed to produce new algorithms for use in big data sets will be led by Dr Isolde Adler of the School of Computing.
Scientists create the world's thinnest gold
Scientists at the University of Leeds have created a new form of gold which is just two atoms thick - the thinnest unsupported gold ever created.