A team of Aarhus scientists first discovered cable bacteria in a nearby lake in 2012. Cable bacteria function, effectively, as living batteries. Cable bacteria obey this rule, but they stretch it in ways we never thought possible. He paused for a long time, then said: “Everything.” Despite gains in our understanding of them, cable bacteria still defy easy explanation. Cite: McCarty, N. “Cable Bacteria are Living Batteries.” Asimov Press (2025).