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They investigated examples from across evolutionary history in which arthropod sperm joined into organized groups or structures that may help them reach and fertilize an egg.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

And “if they fertilize the lawn around the pool, all that water that’s running in there is adding nitrogen and phosphorus,” she says.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

He said he already had paid $50,000 more than last year to fertilize his corn fields in the past 30 days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Composting turns organic material, like food scraps, into a nutrient-rich mixture that can be used to fertilize new plants and crops.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2025

Some mutant hermaphrodites lost their self-incompatibility and became able to fertilize themselves—a process exemplified by many fruit trees such as plums, peaches, apples, apricots, and cherries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Dusky farmerfish in East Asia grow “crops” of red algae by assiduously “weeding out less palatable foods” and have effectively domesticated a type of shrimp whose waste fertilizes the algae and boosts yields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The same phosphorus that fertilizes the thriving agriculture of the Midwest is also responsible for a vast "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi Delta.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

The business-nature of professional sports continually fertilizes that feeling.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

In mammals, offspring are produced when males’ sperm fertilizes females’ eggs.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023

The animal also spreads grass seed, plants it with his hooves, and then fertilizes it with his manure.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

That is, it’s low if you go through the full process of having your eggs retrieved at 44, fertilized, and then an embryo implanted.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

To accomplish this, the researchers inserted a redesigned recording sequence, which they call a tape, into the genome of a fertilized mouse egg.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

He was enamored with the Russian giants, writing in 1953 that “those fertilized by both Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, who understand them both equally well,” have “an always formidable nature, with themselves and with others.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

But this year, the state, tribal and federal scientists involved have no plans to transport fertilized eggs above the dams, Olstad said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

Once the grounds were fertilized, it was time for the plants.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

The additional effort he puts in—seeding, watering, fertilizing, aerating—is a reflection of his professional work ethic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Likewise if there are animals up above fertilizing, as they are wont to do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Although nitrogen fertilizer was used in the experiment, the researchers do not recommend fertilizing forests.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026

“I put a lot of effort into fertilizing it because I wanted to try eating a banana I grew myself,” one disappointed owner told reporters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

My earliest memories are of being in that greenhouse with Mom, growing our little plant family, following her rules, watering and fertilizing each seed just right.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller