If you’re a guy who’s been told you have zero sperm, no biological kids for you, there’s now a small sliver of hope for you yet in the form of a new AI system that’s finding sperm cells that doctors literally couldn’t see before. The tech, called STAR, or Sperm Track and Recovery, comes out of Columbia University, where researchers basically borrowed a cue from astronomy , hence the name. The same kind of machine learning used to spot stars in a noisy night sky is now scanning semen samples for microscopic one-in-a-million sperm cells hiding in what looks like biological noise. Videos by VICE The BBC recently covered the incredible new tech, telling the tale of a pseudonym’d couple — “Penelope” and “Samuel.” Samuel has Klinefelter syndrome, a genetic condition that results in azoospermia, which is when there is no measurable sperm in semen. As you can imagine, that diagnosis usually slams the door shut on the prospect of having kids.…