sperm

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Like Herman Melville’s Pequod, the Mentor sought the sperm whale and its barrels of valuable oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

But how much does a declining sperm count impact the falling birth rate in the United States?

From Salon • May 15, 2026

Levine said his 2022 study, a systematic review of 223 studies, found a 50 percent decline in both sperm concentration and total sperm count between 1973 and 2018 across North America, Europe and Australia.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

Second, the attorney general asserted that Article 1, Section 2 of the Florida Constitution bars biological parents—like egg and sperm donors—from transferring their parental rights to another party.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

Because the chromosome number for a given species is constant, the egg and the sperm, which are to unite to form a new individual, must carry to their union only half the species number.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson