Welcome to another edition of Cool Facts.

And recording these as I'm on my way to Austin where I am relocating.

This cool fact is about how sperm that swim together increased their chances of fertilization.

United we stand divided we fall.

Apparently that's the sperm motto and we didn't even know it.

Traditionally when you picture the process of your little swimmers making their way to

their final destination, the egg, they hope.

This is a winner takes all scenario very mercenary.

But researchers from North Carolina, A&T State University and Cornell studied sperm from

bulls and they found something different.

The researchers discovered that some sperm don't stay in their lanes in the race of fertilizing

egg, clustering instead of competing allowed sperm to swim upstream faster than solo swimmers.

This was even more important when the sperm came up against an opposing flow of viscoelastic

cervical mucus from the female reproductive tract.

Much like human cooperation when sperm work together, they significantly improve their

chances of success.

Was that mean for you?

Well if you and your partner are trying to get pregnant and one of you knows you have

high amounts of viscoelastic cervical mucus, you might want to ask your sperm to clump

together.

Actually, no.

What this means for you is that the picture of biology that you've had painted for you

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