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joining us are their royal highnesses, the crown princess victoria of sweden and prince daniel. your royal highness, you want to say a few words of welcome and to tell us a little bit about where exactly we are in your palace? well, thank you. so nobel laureates, ladies and gentlemen, viewers, id like to wish you a warm welcome to the royal palace here in stockholm and to the bernadotte library. this library holds over 100,000 books that used to belong to the kings and queens of the ho...

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, lets look at the chemistry prize with its scientific breakthroughs that have myriad uses that will benefit humankind. lets have a short video looking at what the prize for chemistry was made for. ...

the nano world is really, really bizarre. when matter is reduced to its smallest dimensions, its 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 use...

very impressive and says russias operations over the winter largely failed. the us general petraeus commanded forces in iraq and afghanistan. he spoke to our diplomatic correspondent james landale. i believe we will see the results of true combined—arms effect, so tanks protected by infantry against anti—tank guided missiles, artillery keeping heads down, engineers reducing the obstacles, breaching the fortifications that the russians have established, air defence keeping the russi...

>> gillian: first possible relief over the debt threat. the house is going to vote tonight imminently on the debt extension deal to avoid a historic default on federal obligations. a lot of staunch conservatives are against this agreement which means democrats will definitely be needed to get the measure across the finish line. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight. hi, chad. >> good evening, gillian. the vote comes some time after 8:00 tonight. exp...

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little bit of cloud off the north sea, particularly into central and eastern england over thursday. not necessarily sunny all the time was that the outlook for the next few days, beautifully glasgow and belfast. plymouth, sunshine. the tourist board will be thanking me. and in cambridge its not looking bad at all. temperatures up to the low 20s. we are all off to plymouth! thanks, tomasz. thats it. theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, just gettin...