SciShow: Bacteria Could Someday Power Our Cell Phones

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Content of the Lesson: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Unlike most living things, there are species of bacteria that can harness electrons directly and even shuttle them around from place to place like living wires. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08790 https://www.ck12.org/biology/cellular-respiration/lesson/Cellular-Respiration-Advanced-BIO-ADV/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793004/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11586 https://www.pnas.org/content/116/38/19116 https://www.pnas.org/content/116/38/18759 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12115-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-019-0554-1 https://www.pnas.org/content/115/22/5786?etoc=&utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Proc_Natl_Acad_Sci_U_S_A_TrendMD_1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6307468/ https://phys.org/news/2019-09-cable-bacteria-electrical-wires.html https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6506/904 http://faculty.wwu.edu/shulld/papers/Davenport%20et%20al%202012.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153037/ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-illustration-of-the-metabolism-of-a-cable-bacteria-Electrogenic-sulfur_fig6_310819851 https://www.nature.com/articles/ismej2013239 https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(17)30238-X https://www.pnas.org/content/115/34/8517 Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunbeam-abstract-underwater-backgrounds-in-the-sea-gm945694992-258292849 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cable_diagram.svg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/169912.php?from=393306 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/49018.php?from=224465 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/49017.php?from=224465 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/169911.php?from=393306 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/hungry-laughing-gm165725184-12397532 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/traditional-battery-9v-gm1164032509-319828671 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/adenosine-triphosphate-gm477720233-36113370 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/redox-reactions-gm1271622639-374152337 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/game-background-template-showing-underground-and-above-gm91000074-5438186


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