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of sweden and prince daniel, as well as students from here in sweden. welcome to nobel minds and the second of our two programmes. laureates, this is the first time that some of you have been brought together in discussion on television. congratulations to you all. thank you. applause. first, let s look at the chemistry prize with its scientific breakthroughs that have myriad uses that will benefit humankind. let s have a short video looking at what the prize for chemistry was made for. it s very strange. the nano world is really, really bizarre. when matter is reduced to its smallest dimensions, it s made up of quantum dots nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. alexey ekimov, moungi bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. they are just a few millionths of a millimetre wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. quantum dots already have commercial an ....
the nano world is really, really bizarre. when matter is reduced to its smallest dimensions, it s made up of quantum dots nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. alexey ekimov, moungi bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. they are just a few millionths of a millimetre wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. quantum dots already have commercial and scientific uses and, infuture, could contribute to flexible electronics, thinner solar cells and encrypted quantum communication. so, moungi bawendi, erm, i don t know, viewers may be watching this programme on qled tv one of the things that have arisen from the work that you ve done so just tell us about how your work collectively can be used to improve lives. so, qleds is one of the biggest moneymaking applications of quantum dots but the field, in the last few decades, has grown enormously and the ....
deadline looms. congressional leaders say that they have made some progress. but a deal remains out of reach for now. plus, a win emerges. cnn projects kentucky attorney general daniel cameron will secure the republican nomination for governor. we will look ahead to his face-off with the incumbent democratic governor. and ukrainian officials say they intercepted six russian hypersonic missiles by air defenses over kyiv. but russia insists that that is not the case. more in a live report. thank you for joining us. america s dangerous standoff over the debt ceiling has caused the u.s. president to scrap part of his planned swing through the pacific region. joe biden is leaving later today for the g7 summit in hiroshima japan. he was supposed to visit top under guinea and australia afterwards for a separate set of meetings. but now he will be heading back to washington right after the g7. for debt talks with congressional leaders as the u.s. creeps ever closer to default. ....
feinstein, return to capitol hill, for now. a discussion with the new york times annie carney about feinstein s future in the future of the democratic agenda. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. it has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for donald trump. most of it of his own making, of course. earlier in the week, the criminally and twice impeached, criminally indicted was found liable for the fast store statement and sexually abusing the jury awarded the former journalist nearly $5 million in damages. the very next day, the republican front runner for the 2024 presidential nomination attacked carroll at cnn town hall. his inability to accept the verdict may have landed him an even more hot water, the new york times reported that carole could be gearing up to sue trump a third time as a result. now, during the new hampshire time hall, tampa trumbull hardened his way through the greatest hits, he lied about the 2020 election results, sai ....
could be a major setback for russian forces as they are bracing for an expected ukrainian counteroffensive. cnn s chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is live. nick, of course, the messages from prigozhin are not new. but what is significant to you about this video that he posted overnight? reporter: the fact that they are saying they will leave in five days. they have never said that before. they have threatened that they might compromise their position for a week now, we have been seeing these messages from yevgeny prigozhin after people thought his long-term rift as the head of the wagner mercenary group with the russian defense ministry establishment, the top brass might have begun to be healing. he has been kplalg they haven t got the artillery shells. that expletive-laden video, what s done that before in front of corpses to ask for more ammunition. quite a different tone. this would be a staggering gift to the ukrainian forces if wagner w ....