Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have evolved a very unusual colony of symbiotic bacteria. The bacteria, which belong to two different species, cannot live without each other and grow biological wires to share energy in the form of electrons."They can just wire themselves up to each other," says Derek Lovley, a microbiologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "I think it's probably one of the most surprising things I've seen working in microbiology."
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