The sperm tail moves very rapidly in 3D, not from side-to-side in 2D, as it was believed. Source: Image credited to polymaths-lab[dot]com New state-of-the-art 3D microscope technology combined with ...

Katsuhiko Hayashi pulls a clear plastic dish from an incubator and slides it under a microscope. "You really want to see the actual cells, right?" Hayashi asks as he motions toward the microscope.

Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...