You say that bacteria have… what the hell! They do WHAT?!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/ftf-gorby/

*Bacteria network themselves together by growing tiny iron wires, and then they ship electricity around *between species*? Like freakin’ bacterial electrical utilities, this is what you’re telling me? And they’ve been doing this since the early pre-Paleolithic and this is the first time we ever got around to noticing?

“Demonstrating that bacteria can communicate using integrated neurobiological circuitry will be no easy feat, but success in th

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