The Biological Fireworks Sparked by Fertilization Are at Least 300 Million Years Old - ScienceAlert 18-Jul-2021

The Biological Fireworks Sparked by Fertilization Are at Least 300 Million Years Old - ScienceAlert

New life quite literally sparks into being, at least under fluorescence microscopy. That moment when sperm touches egg, billions of zinc atoms ignite across their now conjoined surfaces.

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