Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Gabriel Popkin — Bacteria Use Brainlike Bursts of Electricity to Communicate

With electrical signals, cells can organize themselves into complex societies and negotiate with other colonies.

4 comments:

Kaivey said...

Crikey! We found out that trees and plants talk to each other, now it's bacteria.

Tom Hickey said...

Atoms and subatomic particle "communicate" using electrical charge. There is nothing independent of reciprocal relationship in the universe. It's all interconnected.

Matt Franko said...

"There is nothing independent of reciprocal relationship in the universe."

Tell it to the Freedom Caucus....

Noah Way said...

If only we could get humans to display some intelligence ...