to continue their research six years ago never so often game discovered graphene for which they were awarded the euro physics prize there to receive the world's most prestigious scientific word the nobel prize for producing graphene which can rival silicon as a basis of computer chips so perhaps there's sense in letting silicon valley stay american but making griffin valley more russian creation at skolkovo. close to the sale of welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us. first of all have you already got yourself a joke see that maybe you got one. too much too many problems. i would i would appreciate any advice ok. well the russian government as far as you know i'm sure is attempting to create a sort of a silicon valley here outside moscow well do you think it's maybe a better idea now to to to create new agrafena value rather than a silicon valley. well for me graffiti is of called the a priority of the city can really would be you would be quite we would you would know you have published a paper describing. describing your your your invention your work well five ye

like picking up squash table and making make in first examples of graphene that's fantastic time. making some new type of devices that's fantastic of for me the best one is a device which you can produce. in the day you just got an idea where you will produce a device and you measure it in the rain that's the. best one. and. any interest in arguments any unusual having a good time for us constantin this graphene as far as aniston is a unique unique two d. material a material with unique qualities is it really unique is it one of a kind or there may be other materials with similar or even better qualities yet to come yet to be invented. oh yes absolutely that's and i'm a little bit concerned about this but we are so so much concentration on griffin i really would like to to look a little bit broader now but it's even griffin by itself already it's gives us so much fun that it's hard to. go somewhere else but i'm sure and probably we would suspect how to do it there are other materials there reads worse similar interests and problems as well russian kids have have lots of cell a tap

that is what potentially graphene could do for us. >> lehrer: where does it actually come from? >> carbon is an element. it's right up there on the periodic table. where carbon comes from goes back literally to the big bang. we're made of carbon. is is this pencil. carbon is absolute fundamental building block of life. it's so fundamental that it's kind of surprising to scientists at times at how marvelous it can be. >> lehrer: these two scientists, these two russian- born scientists, they're considered quite characters. tell us what we need to know about them. >> andre geim who is 51 years old, my age, i'm still waiting for my nobel prize. >> lehrer: gotcha. >> 51. he is is first nobel prize winner to have won the spoof award, the ignoble prize back in 2000. he likes to play around with electro magnetism because of the super conductivity properties of it. he was able to levitate a frog and whon won what is called the ignoble prize for odd, bizarre science. he did a paper once his co-author was his favorite hamster. now novoselov, both of them are russian nationals. novoselov is

they developed graphene, the thinnest yet toughest material known. >> lehrer: and we talk to philanthropist melinda gates about the push to improve job training programs at community colleges. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the man who tried to set off a bomb in the heart of new york city will spend the rest of his life behind bars. the formal sentencing came today in a federal court in manhattan. faisel shahzad had already pleaded guilty in the times square bomb plot, and his life sentence was mandatory. but he remained defiant today in court. in his statement, the 31-year-old pakistani-american said, "brace yourselves because the war with muslims has just begun." shahzad's failed plot unfolded last may when street vendors alerted police to a smoking s.u.v., a nisssan path finder, on a bustling saturday night. the bomb squad diffused the car bomb, and police said it

graphene is suitable for producing transparent touch screens, light panels, and maybe solar cells. it will also likely be used in the production of powerful computers in the future. geim is 51 and novoselov is 36. both were born in russia and started their careers there. the two laureates have worked together for many years. >>> leaders from 46 asian and european nations have ended their two-day summit in brussels by promising greater cooperation and economic integration of their regions. to close the asia europe meeting or asem on tuesday the leaders >> we need to find common ground and agree on coordinated action between our two continents in order to tackle the pressing issues. >> european leaders were particularly concerned about the rece recent row over the collision of the patrol boats and chinese fishing boat. european leaders who are critical of china's human rights records were worried about the country's hard line stance over japan following the incident. they expressed a sense of relief when chinese premier wen jiabao showed his intent to mend the strained ties with an i

which is a layer of carbon that's just an adamant that commits the nobel academy said graphene could lead to technological leaps in computer chips touch screens and solar cells the winning scientists began their careers at a soviet research center in the moscow region and now work at manchester university in britain game in no but still live get to share one and a half million dollars for their ground breaking development ten years ago game received the so-called ignoble prize which celebrates some of science's most ridiculous research for proving that magnets can cause frogs to levitate. let's have a look at some other stories from around the world this hour the felde bomber who tried to detonate explosives in new york's times square has been sentenced to life in prison on may the first faisal shahzad drove a car with a homemade bomb into the square which was packed with tourists no one was injured and shocked zod was arrested two days later he pleaded guilty to ten terrorism and weapons charges and prosecutors say he shows no remorse no remorse. also a series of raids by french ant

which is a layer of carbon that's just an atom in thickness the noble academy said graphene could lead to a technical technological leaps in computer chips touch screens and solar cells the winning scientists begin began their careers at a soviet research center in the moscow region and now work at manchester university in britain game in the west so we get to share one and a half million dollars for their ground breaking developments and ten years ago game received the so-called ignoble prize which celebrates some of science in its most ridiculous research for proving that magnets can cause frogs to levitate. reduce reuse recycle is a slogan that's not really caught on in moscow with just fifteen percent of the millions of tons of garbage produced getting a new lease of life but burying the trust isn't a permanent solution either because space is running out. of looks into why problems are piling up. when alexander and his family moved to their frantic ten years ago the view from the thirteenth floor was so impressive the whole city before them but soon this hump turned into a hill bl

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graphene. >> i'm worried about this one.mebody got a nobel prize for this? >> yes, nobel prize. >> looks like chicken wire. >> here's how they found graphene. pencil, piece of tape. let's find out what comes off here. make as small a piece as we can and then examine it, figure out what it is. they found out what's coming off is two dimensional, not three dimensional. it can be one atom thick. this graphene or graphite or carbon is one atom thick. >> this is the same thing as coal. this is the same thing as oil and diamonds is carbon. >> think about what silica did to silicon valley, right? >> right. >> think about what this does other than -- this conducts electricity where the opposite doesn't. so when they were making those little wafers they put the silica in there. this could miniaturize the miniaturized circuits we have now. >> this is a highly blown-up version of chicken wire but this is graphite. it can hold -- give me a sechbls the strength. >> it's a little bit in theory. height thet cal sheet of this stuff that doe

scientists won the prize for their groundbreaking experiments of the super-thin material called graphene, which is a form of carbon. it is suitable for producing transparent touch screens, light panels, and maybe solar cells. it will also likely be used in the production of powerful computers in the future. geim is 51 and novoselov is 36. both were born in russia and started their careers there. the two laureates have worked together for many years. >>> a japanese research team has discovered one of the world's largest hydrothermal fields off the southern islands of okinawa. rich metal and mineral deposits are often found near fields of this type. the research vessel "chikyu," or "earth," began exploring the sea bed 180 kilometers northwest of nago city in september. the hydrothermal field lies 200 meters below the sea bed, and its superheated fluid has a temperature of more than 250 degrees celsius. the field is one of the largest of the 350 identified in the world so far. it has a radius of ten kilometers and is 100 meters deep. the discovery has raised interest among researchers as go

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they used scotch tape to isolate graphene. that's a form of car bon only one adam thick but it's a hundred times stronger than steel. exper importants could lead to the development of new, super strong and light weight materials to make satellites, planes and cars. >>> san francisco's board of supervisors is considering a measure to encourage nail salons to be chemical free. "the chronicle" says those who participate in the program by using toxic-free nail polishes will get a decal to put in their city. the idea's been approved by the city and needs the full board's approval. >>> a lack of sleep may be hampering your ail ability to lose waste. researchers say the light sleepers lost more muscles than body fat. >>> we just got word from san francisco police just now. they say they've found the missing woman considered at risk. here's her picture. police say this woman went to a hospital last night and she is safe. that word, just in now. >>> also ahead now to tell you about, the white house. yeah. there is a story about the whi