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Recent Examples of motility
The sperm count and motility dropped, and microscopic analysis revealed damage to the seminiferous tubules, where sperm are formed.
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New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
It is also designed to boost your motility and digestion.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
The team showed that this gliding persists down to –15 degree Celsius, setting a new benchmark for cellular motility in complex, nucleus-bearing organisms.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
To test male infertility, doctors can look at the concentration of sperm and motility, meaning how active the sperm are.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 29 May 2025
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The rover’s two-wheel design reflects UEL’s emphasis on surface mobility and system simplicity.—
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His responsibilities exposed him to the complex environment universities encounter when seeking to develop international initiatives, from navigating regulatory landscapes to supporting faculty mobility and aligning academic structures beyond national borders.—
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What stands out is not just the ability to climb stairs, something already demonstrated by other quadruped robots, but the speed and fluidity with which the D5 switches between locomotion modes.—
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This pneumatic layer jamming technology enables multi-environment locomotion on land and water by changing the robot’s flipper shape and stiffness to decrease the cost of transport.—
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By modeling this signal across each galaxy, the team measured how fast the gas was moving and how chaotic its motion was.—
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So a common approach is to use a computer to simulate the fluid’s motion and get an approximate sense of the conditions that seem to produce a blowup.—
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“Motility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motility. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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