A new study finds that proteins used in photosynthesis take advantage of electrons’ wavelike properties

Forty Intel Science Talent Search 2010 finalists have been announced. (p. 8)

Tiny silver-coated rust particles suspended in water may give the fluid light-bending superpowers, physicists suggest in a paper to appear in Physical Review Letters. Simulations with the proposed fluid system find that it could disguise objects from many wavelengths of visible light, lead author Jiping Huang of Fudan University in Shanghai and colleagues report. What’s more, the system would be tunable, giving researchers control over the light-contorting particles. The ability to twist and contort light in unusual ways has been demonstrated in a special class of materials called metamat...

People report feeling worse the next morning after drinking bourbon than after drinking vodka.

Researchers have captured the bacterium Shewanella’s behavior on film, and the microbes didn’t behave as expected (p. 12)