Why Fruit Fly Sperm Is 40 Times Longer Than Human Sperm
Fruit fly sperm—which can grow nearly 40 times longer than human sperm—avoid becoming a tangled, unusable mess by organizing into a coordinated, counter-flowing mass. According to a study published in Nature Physics, these insects utilize collective “active matter” behavior, where neighboring cells move in opposite directions to maintain order within the storage organ. This biological … Read more