One more reason for dudes to walk around like they’re hoarding the Eighth World Wonder in their boxer-briefs:
UCLA has revealed that human sperm can swim in a gorgeous, nature-perfect, three-dimensional spiral — not unlike the helix formed by human DNA, aesthetically — instead of just squiggling along in a desperate, haphazard route to the finish line.
Well, they still do that, too. But scientists discovered that…
… more than 1,000 sperm cells in a test batch of 24,000 moved in “a very tight helical, or corkscrew, motion,” at up to 20 rotations per second. Read full article.