It's much harder for a sperm to swim, than it is for a sperm whale. Why? This excellent TEDed video explains:
I think I'll use it next year, during the 'reproduction' section of my first-year biology paper đ
Recent Archives
[archives type="monthly" limit="6"]
Categories
- Add category
- animal behaviour
- animal diversity
- communication
- critical thinking
- ecology
- education
- evolution
- genetics
- history of science
- human evolution
- humour
- nature of science
- new science stories
- plant responses to the environment
- plant structure
- scholarship biology
- science and society
- Uncategorised
Marcus Wilson says:
Purcell’s paper is a really good read. The key from a physics point of view is breaking time-reversal symmetry. http://sci.waikato.ac.nz/physicsstop/2009/01/yet-more-swimming-pool-physics.shtml