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Cleo Abram is a video journalist who produces Huge If True, an optimistic show about science and technology. Huge If True is an antidote to the doom and gloom, helping a wide audience see better futures they can help build. In each episode, Cleo dives deep into one innovation that could shape the future. She has explored humanoid robots at Boston Dynamics, supersonic planes at NASA, quantum computers at IBM, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and more. Previously, Cleo was a video producer at Vox and directed for Explained on Netflix. She was the host of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as co-host of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
From Cleo Abram. Something’s hiding below the ice in Antarctica…. For optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! In 1970, a team of Soviet scientists started drilling. For 28 years, they kept going… until after nearly 4,000 meters… they suddenly stopped. Because they’d found something unimaginable: Liquid water. A secret lake, down below all this ice,…
From Cleo Abram. What would happen if we invented a real-life shrink ray? As you start shrinking, by the time you’re the size of a small dog, you’re starting to feel chilly. At the size of a smartphone, you’re COLD. REALLY COLD. Think of yourself as a cube. As you shrink, your volume drops way…
From Cleo Abram. Inside the stomach of a sperm whale, there’s an alarming amount of colossal squid. This animal can grow over 9 meters long. That’s nearly the length of a school bus! Scientists estimate that colossal squid make up around 80% of a sperm whale’s diet in the southern ocean, which means there’s gotta…
From Cleo Abram. This new map shows dark energy might be getting weaker. That’s odd. Every dot you see here is either a galaxy or a special kind of black hole, and there are 47 million in this new 3D map of our universe. It’s uprooting what we thought we knew about dark energy and…
From Cleo Abram. This crazy machine mimics the inside of the Earth to grow diamonds. If you dig deep into the Earth’s mantle, you’ll enter hot, plastic-like rock filled with carbon atoms. These atoms are squeezed together over millions of years by the intense pressure down there. On the surface, our machine uses powerful arms…
From Cleo Abram. Why do we find SO MANY meteorites in Antarctica? 60% of meteorites found on Earth are found there! It’s not because it’s at the pole. The reason is these special blue ice areas. And how they form… For more adventures in Antarctica and optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! #Antarctica #Meteorites #Science…
From Cleo Abram. This chart shows human brains size over time. They got way bigger, fast. But now they’re shrinking? (No, it’s not the phones!) About 2 million years ago something changed and it altered the course of human evolution. Our brains just started RAPIDLY growing, the organ nearly doubled in size in just a…
From Cleo Abram. How do they build underwater tunnels? How do they not fill up with water!? Here’s how the British and French built the Channel Tunnel, one of the longest undersea tunnels… For more stories like this, subscribe. #shorts #science #channel #tunnel #underwater
From Cleo Abram. Nearly 3500 meters under the sea off the coast of Sicily sits 51 strings holding 18 spheres each. They sway in the pitch black water and wait for signals from the universe. Scientists have been building this mysterious observatory since 2015, and in February of 2023 they finally saw something. Subscribe for…
From Cleo Abram. There’s antimatter in this truck!! And if matter meets antimatter…it goes boom! We’ve figured out how to make and store antimatter, but they’re super delicate atoms, so to study them we need a super quiet environment that requires moving them! So scientists built a special trap in order to transport antimatter… #shorts…
From Cleo Abram. If you dug a hole in your nearest forest between the tree roots you would see A giant web of FUNGI…SO BIG that if you took what’s in just the top layer of the Earth and spread it out… It would be nearly as long as half the Milky Way Galaxy! And…
From Cleo Abram. We’ve spent a lot of time looking out to the cosmos and asking “are we alone?” In the 1960’s physicist Freeman Dyson came up with a theory about what an alien civilization more advanced than ours might look like to give us a better idea of what we might want to look…
From Cleo Abram. What would happen if the Earth was hollow? Would you feel lighter? Would everything float off into space? Would you get fried by the sun? Watch to find out what happens! And to find out how scientists know what’s really at the center of the Earth, subscribe! #shorts #earth #science #gravity #space
From Cleo Abram. Blood falls was first discovered in 1911 and remained a very unsettling mystery for over 100 years. Finally, when scientists were able to sample the falls they were surprised to find out exactly what turned this water red and the color was the least interesting part… To find out more, subscribe! #Antarctica…
From Cleo Abram. This is what happens when you wash your clothes with the new @tidelaundry evo tile… #TidePartner #TideEvo #RealLaundryMagic #ad
From Cleo Abram. Most people don’t understand just HOW DEEP the ocean really is. If you put Mt. Everest into the water upside down, there would still be over a mile before you got to the bottom. It’s roughly the average cruising altitude of a 737 airplane! Imagine you walk off the coast into the…
From Cleo Abram. I wrote a BRAND NEW sci-fi story with Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir. Andy is one of the most popular science fiction writers alive today. He also wrote The Martian. What’s special about his work is how real his fake stories are. He showed me the secret spreadsheets he uses to…
From Cleo Abram. This wasn’t in the book… Andy is one of the most popular science fiction writers alive today. He also wrote The Martian. What’s special about his work is how real his fake stories are. He showed me the secret spreadsheets he uses to calculate the science in his writing (including my favorite,…
From Cleo Abram. Something weird is happening deep in the freezing water at our poles. Animals consistently grow to ENORMOUS sizes. Spiders the size of dinner plates and squid larger than a school bus. "Detecting multiple leviathan class organisms in this area…” WHY? Subscribe to learn more! #ocean #science #antarctica
From Cleo Abram. These brain cells on a dish look like they’re playing the video game DOOM. But are they actually? I emailed the scientists to find out… Experts think this could lead to efficient bio computers or ways to study neurological diseases! If you think you could beat the brain cells, subscribe! #shorts #science…
From Cleo Abram. Artemis II is officially home safe! These 4 humans went farther from Earth than ever before. This is the second of three planned NASA missions to go BACK to the moon, in hopes of eventually establishing a moon colony. This mission, Artemis II, is about testing the spacecraft, Orion, during a 10…
From Cleo Abram. What time is it in Antarctica? All of the timezones meet here at the bottom of the world, so, could you run through all of them? Is it every time zone? I went to Antarctica! We’re making a longer episode all about what’s hidden underneath the ice… so subscribe to see it……
From Cleo Abram. The scariest part of the Artemis II mission hasn’t happened yet. They’ve slingshotted around the moon and they’re headed back but now… It’s incredible we can do this. If you think there should be more optimistic tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #space #engineer #artemis #moon
From Cleo Abram. He solved “the most important unsolved problem in science”… If you need more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe to support HUGE*! Demis Hassabis is a Nobel Prize winner and CEO of Google DeepMind. He is one of the most important people alive on what is quickly becoming the biggest technological advance…
From Cleo Abram. He solved “the most important unsolved problem in science”… If you need more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe to support HUGE*! Demis Hassabis is a Nobel Prize winner and CEO of Google DeepMind. He is one of the most important people alive on what is quickly becoming the biggest technological advance…
From Cleo Abram. If you landed on Mars, you’d see a bunch of titanium tubes containing perfectly preserved ancient Martian rock or air. What are they, and why are they there? Turns out, they’re a very big deal… To find out how we’re going to go get them, subscribe! #shorts #Mars #life #aliens #NASA #perseverance
From Cleo Abram. In 1996, the news erupted that a scientist found evidence of Martian life on a meteorite recovered in Antarctica. Years later, most scientists agree that actually… It was a false positive. This doesn’t stop the media or public from running with conspiracy theories. People are genuinely excited about the search for life…
From Cleo Abram. Scientists say the best chance we have at finding alien life is to find a planet that looks a lot like Earth that orbits a sun that looks like ours. That’s because as far as life goes we have a sample size of one: our own planet. The trouble is the main…
From Cleo Abram. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets. Beautiful, bizarre creatures thrive in the cold dark depths of our oceans. Until now though, most of our discoveries have just required decades of work for the chance to just get… lucky. Now, there’s a new way to discover the animals hidden in the…
From Cleo Abram. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets… Visit http://mercury.com to join over 200 thousand entrepreneurs who love Mercury. Gigantic, monstrous, beautiful creatures thrive in the cold dark depths of our oceans. Until now though, most of our discoveries have just required decades of work for the chance to just get… lucky.…
From Cleo Abram. This new tool can now predict which parts of your DNA might cause serious disease, which could save your life. We have no idea what most of the DNA in our body actually does…just 2% of it makes proteins, and the rest…? For decades we called it “junk DNA”! But now we…
From Cleo Abram. To build a moon colony, we need massive rockets and even more fuel. The problem? Most of that fuel is burned just escaping Earth’s atmosphere. To solve this, SpaceX needs to do the impossible: have the spaceship dock with ANOTHER spaceship that serves as a fuel tank IN SPACE To see what…
From Cleo Abram. There’s something else weird happening about 1000 meters below the surface. Here, mysterious sounds ring out for thousands of kilometers making it hard to track them back to the source. Something about this section of water works like a highway for soundwaves. We think whales even use it like a long distance…
From Cleo Abram. This brand new telescope just sent scientists 800,000 alerts in one night, each one flagging that something has CHANGED in our sky… Here’s what it caught… This telescope contains the largest camera in the world. To see just how big it is, subscribe! #space #telescope #astronomy #spacenews
From Cleo Abram. Within minutes of entering Space your entire body starts to change…but what early astronauts didn’t realize is how important gravity itself was for the function of our immune systems. Today, we found a way to track that and now we’re looking for ways to keep astronauts healthy all the way to mars.…
From Cleo Abram. Fireflies are great spectacles on land – they’re using something called bioluminescence to glow! It’s super rare…to us terrestrial animals at least, because if you dive into the ocean you’ll find a very different story. It turns out the ability to glow is one of the most common evolutionary traits on our…
From Cleo Abram. Out of all the different kinds of solar systems, ours appears to be the rarest! Simulations and surveys of other planets tell us that the most common solar system is one where all the planets are about the same size. So then HOW did ours get like this? The leading theory has…
From Cleo Abram. We might be putting diamonds inside our cell phones soon. But not the kind you’re thinking of… Every time you send a text or take a photo tiny electrical signals are moving around in your phone and about half of that energy is lost to heat. So to keep it from basically…
From Cleo Abram. This piece of glass can store data for 10,000 years and is kept in a library managed by robots. A laser etches the data inside the glass, permanently encoding it. One piece can store the equivalent of 13 years worth of music or 3,500 movies. When your great-great-great-great grandkids are ready to…
From Cleo Abram. My favorite science fiction book is now a movie Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling. The real science in the movie is exceptional, here’s a little sneak peek at it. Go watch it in theaters and IMAX on March 20th! @AmazonMGMStudios #ad #AmazonMGMStudiosPartner #projecthailmary