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Oh yes. Hello and welcome to Curiosity Daily from Discovery. If you like to get smarter,

but you don't want to take too much time on it, this is the place for you.

I'm Nate.

Hi everybody, we're so excited to have you back today.

I'm Callie.

Today you learn about a breakthrough in our understanding of the behavior and abilities of bacteria, the queen ants that

cannibalize their sick larvae and recycle it, and how tiny shards of plastic are

finding their way into our brains. Let's get started.

Antibiotic resistance is quickly becoming one of the most pressing problems in a world full of already really pressing problems.

By some estimates, bacterial antimicrobial resistance was directly responsible for nearly 1.3 million deaths in 2019 when a study was conducted, but it likely contributed to nearly 5 million deaths.

It's something we talk about a lot because there's just so much

energy being put into this issue which is absolutely a function of just how much of a

crisis this is becoming. Right and for a refresher, the modern era of antibiotics came in 1928 when penicillin

was discovered, which was shown to kill the bacteria that caused staff infections.

And it was such a wild discovery that it ushered in what's known as the golden era of antibiotics.

New drugs were being discovered left and right and just about every illness a doctor saw was being

dosed with this miracle drug.

And that's kind of the problem, right?

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