{"id":199221,"date":"2024-11-11T00:26:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-caught-sperm-defying-one-of-the-laws-of-physics"},"modified":"2024-11-11T00:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T06:26:53","slug":"scientists-caught-sperm-defying-one-of-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-caught-sperm-defying-one-of-the-laws-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Caught Sperm Defying One of The Laws of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-caught-sperm-defying-one-of-the-laws-of-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With their slender tails, human sperm propel themselves through viscous fluids, seemingly in defiance of Newton\u2019s third law of motion, according to a recent study that characterizes the motion of these sex cells and single-celled algae.<\/p>\n<p>Kenta Ishimoto, a mathematical scientist at Kyoto University, and colleagues investigated these non-reciprocal interactions in sperm and other microscopic biological swimmers, to figure out how they slither through substances that should, in theory, resist their movement.<\/p>\n<p>When Newton conceived his now-famed <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.grc.nasa.gov\/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics\/newtons-laws-of-motion\/\">laws of motion<\/a> in 1686, he sought to explain the relationship between a physical object and the forces acting upon it with a few neat principles that, it turns out, don\u2019t necessarily apply to microscopic cells wriggling through sticky fluids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their slender tails, human sperm propel themselves through viscous fluids, seemingly in defiance of Newton\u2019s third law of motion, according to a recent study that characterizes the motion of these sex cells and single-celled algae. Kenta Ishimoto, a mathematical scientist at Kyoto University, and colleagues investigated these non-reciprocal interactions in sperm and other microscopic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2229,219,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}