- Cooperative sperm outrun loners in the mating race. In simulated reproductive tracts of animals like cattle and humans, the behavior increases the chances that groups of cooperative bovine sperm will outpace meandering loners as they race to fertilize a female egg cell, physicists report. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sperm-swimming-groups-effectiveness-fertility 42 comments science
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