New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz

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Originally Posted by Humble Janitor

Which space-faring civilization do we owe this "discovery" to?

Yep, these were my thoughts as well because why else would he say this:
"It is the thinnest known material in the universe, and the strongest ever measured," Andre Geim , a physicist at the University of Manchester, England , wrote in the June 19 issue of the journal Science."