Over 300 years ago, English physicist Sir Issac Newton explained in his third law of motion that for every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Newton’s third law became my North Star. In 1687, when Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, also known as the Principia, he was, of course, referring to inanimate objects ...

A trio of fluid dynamics and mathematical modelers at Kyoto University has discovered how sperm and other tiny creatures are able to skirt Newton's third law of motion. In their paper published in ...

Isaac Newton’s third law of motion famously states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction: If you push an object, for example, the object pushes back against you with ...

How sperm swim free and clear of Newton’s third law. Most examples of spermatozoa in the animal kingdom consist of two separate functionally distinct regions enclosed in a plasma membrane.

New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton's third law of motion By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 20 December 2023 ...