/sci/ - Science & Math

>How does the sperm know to swim up into the fallopian tubes? They are just a bag of genetic material and can't possibly have any brains or other kind of programming.

Not today shitposts...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170320085505.htm

>By analysing the head and tail movements of the sperm, researchers have now shown that the sperm moves the fluid in a coordinated rhythmic way, which can be captured to form a relatively simple mathematical formula. This means complex and expensive computer simulations are no longer needed to understand how the fluid moves as the sperm swim.

>You would assume that the jerky movements of the sperm would have a very random impact on the fluid flow around it, making it even more difficult for competing sperm cells to navigate through it, but in fact you see well defined patterns forming in the fluid around the sperm.

>This suggests that to achieve sperm stirs the fluid around in a very coordinated way locomotion, not too dissimilar to the way in which magnetic fields are formed around magnets. So although the fluid drag makes it very difficult for the sperm to make forward motion, it does coordinate with its rhythmic movements to ensure that only a few selected ones achieve forward propulsion."

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The way his mother paraded him around to fulfill her own ego was relentless and perverse. I know that you're insecure about your own intelligence, but please stop posting this kid.

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>shitpost analysis