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How human sperm really swim: New research challenges centuries-old assumption

A breakthrough in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm ‘swim’. More than three hundred years after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used one of the earliest microscopes to describe human sperm as having a “tail, which, when swimming, lashes with a snakelike movement, like eels in… Read More »

The Umbrella Academy’s Season 2 Twist Ending, Explained

The Umbrella Academy‘s first season ended with bang—to recap, Vanya caused the apocalypse, the siblings had to time travel to escape, and they turned back into teenagers for some reason—and the Netflix series’ second season definitely didn’t disappoint either. Season two of The Umbrella Academy saw the siblings live separate lives in the early 1960s… Read More »

Things you should think about when you hear “vaccine by end of the year”

On July 27, 2020, the Washington Post reported, Two coronavirus vaccines begin the last phase of testing: 30,000-person trials, wrapping it in historical terms: Getty Images At 6:45 a.m. Monday, a volunteer in Savannah, Ga., received a shot in the arm and became the first participant in a massive human experiment that will test the effectiveness of… Read More »