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Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] Sentau@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this actually third law being broken or is it that the mechanism these oddly flexing microorganisms use is not well enough understood

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It seems like this article would call an F1 car with a low drag coefficient "disobeying Newton's third law"

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Everytime you are asking yourself "did I just make world changing discovery, or did I miss something? " it is time to think twice about it. While the first one does happen from time to time, the latter happens much more often.