Scientists discover bacteria that eat pure electrons rather than food
Monitoring Desk: Scientists have claimed to discover bacteria that eat pure electrons rather than food. Science believes that bacteria are live entities and food of any kind is must for living beings to survive.
The ‘electric bacteria’ take energy from rocks and metal by feasting directly on their electrons. The hair-like filaments the bacteria produce carry electrons between the cells and their environment.
The biologists from the University of Southern California (USC) found that the new discovery joins more than ten other different specific type of bacteria that also feed on electricity – although none in quite the same way.
