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 ...

Whether the one corkscrew in your home has gone missing or ends up broken, knowing how to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew is an important skill for any host or hostess to have. Here, we share ...

This paper was retracted by Science Advances on May 19, 2021, after readers identified that the described asymmetrical movement of sperm cannot be confirmed using only 3D flagellar waveform data. The ...

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 ...

They also took note of the angled orientation of each salp in a chain to understand how the colony's corkscrew motion was created. “My initial reaction was really one of wonder and awe,” said ...

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.