Worms that create intricate, tangled blobs with their bodies can disentangle in milliseconds when threatened. This speedy unscrambling is possible because each worm wriggles in a special corkscrew ...

A 3D filming technique has revealed that human sperm really swim with a corkscrew motion like otters, rather than wiggling like eels due to their 'wonky tails'. Developed by scientists led from ...

A team of researchers from Monash University has uncovered how swimming sperm create corkscrew-shaped fluid vortices that help propel them forward, improving their chances of reaching the egg. The ...

Through the microscope lens, van Leeuwenhoek saw it, too: a “small earth-nut with a long tail” that we now know as sperm. After examining some of his own specimens, van Leeuwenhoek asserted that sperm ...

Findings published in Nature settle the dispute: phonons can be chiral. This fundamental concept, discovered using circular X-ray light, sees phonons twisting like a corkscrew through quartz.

The “kinky” motion of a primitive spiral-shaped bacterium swimming could help design efficient micromachines, suggests a new modelling study. The motion of Spiroplasma swimming through fluid by ...