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Exposure to Microgravity Seems to Seriously Disorient Human Sperm


Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant hurdle to overcome: microgravity appears to confuse sperm about which direction they should be heading in.

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