Episode 424
SIO424: Semen Caught Violating Newton's 3rd Law? (the one about cum)
Astrophysicist Dr. Bryan Gillis is back! And here's here to talk about... sperm? Well, when a science headline claims that sperm is violating Newton's 3rd Law, that's when the science police have to lay down the law, no matter how weird the topic. ...
Serious Inquiries Only · Thomas Smith
February 1, 202448m 41sExplicit
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Show Notes
Astrophysicist Dr. Bryan Gillis is back! And here's here to talk about... sperm? Well, when a science headline claims that sperm is violating Newton's 3rd Law, that's when the science police have to lay down the law, no matter how weird the topic. But before you think this is just a bad journalist, the paper may actually be where the problem is... Bryan explains the whole damn thing.
- Public articles:
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2397442-sperm-caught-breaking-newtons-third-law-of-motion/
- https://www.iflscience.com/sperm-caught-breaking-the-law-newtons-third-law-of-motion-that-is-71245
- Original publication:
- https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/PRXLife.1.023002#fulltext (and on ArXiV) https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07162