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Bacteria Communicate Using Techniques Similar to Radio

2026-01-29 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a strange bacterial communication technique similar to radio waves Links: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01442-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982224014428%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Previous videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M872c27bSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSGW8DmrWlU https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj1539 #science #radio #bacteria 0:00 Bacterial communication and social lives 1:20 Quorum sensing and multilingual bacteria? 4:20 Physical bridge communication 5:20 New communication involves radio like processing 8:00 What this is used for 9:15 Why this is important for the medical fields Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@Kaasschaaf-OG 2026-01-29

Even the bacteria have more friends than me lol

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@Szan-40 2026-01-29

This is incredible. I've heard about an analog before that our body is the starship and bacteria are the crew. Now that I've learned they are actually communicating too... bacteria seem to be more and more fascinating.

184 17 replies
@quantumfoam539 2026-01-29

We got bacteria Radio before GTA6

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@MarcusSeanGeiger 2026-01-29

Anton, your content is just plainly one of the best science channels out there. You explain everything in such a brilliant way, while also always staying neutral but enthusiastic about the newest discoveries - it absolutely makes me want to love everything about science! And the pure consistency of it! One 10-15min video a day. I mean, sure you film a couple in succession, but still the level of consistency is just fantastic. Thank you Anton and crew!

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@GuardianOfUltima 2026-01-29

This is why eukaryotic cells are possible. They use communication that came with mitochondria back when they were bacteria. Otherwise, multicellular life wouldn't be possible.

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@hollowthere83 2026-01-29

We carry around our own little universe of chemicals and bacteria having conversations, fights and reactions.. I always thought that was very cool!

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@nunyabitnezz2802 2026-01-30

This sounds like we are seeing one of the factors in what became the development of multicellular life.

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@peterjameson321 2026-01-30

Fascinating. Let's hope that this opens up a whole new branch of medicine.

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@richardthompson6079 2026-01-29

"Distributed Intelligence".

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@Scientalist 2026-02-01

It is insane how no matter how much you learn, you end up finding a lot more than you knew nothing about! Thanks for sharing all these random exciting stuff on your Channel, Anton!

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