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D. Lovley, K. Nevin, B. Barnhart / UMass A toy truck draws electrical power from a set of soil-microbe batteries developed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Did you hear the one about the microbes that send out electricity through their hair? Or the one about the germs that actually clean up toxic algae-ridden water? How about the bacteria that build up artificial bones or manufacture medicine? They may sound as outlandish as the stupid pet tricks you see on late-night talk shows, but the tricks that microbes do could end up improving lives and saving energy....(read more)