From Cleo Abram. Alarms start blaring when a plane goes into zero gravity! On a Zero G flight, one pilot’s job is to figure out which alarms matter and turn off the others. One that gets turned off every time? The low fuel warning. Because everyone on this plane starts experiencing zero gravity… so does…

From Cleo Abram. You can find the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It’s a massive span of space cluttered with huge jagged rocks leftover from when our solar system formed and it’s captured our imaginations. Most movies depict it as a super crowded and dangerous section of the solar system, but how realistic is…

From Cleo Abram. One specific area of the US has been dubbed a “mummy zone” for dinosaurs. Scientists uncovered specimens that were stunningly preserved. They could count individual scales on the body, hooves, and a fleshy crest on the top. How could an animal that died 66 million years ago be preserved in such amazing…

From Cleo Abram. How many people have ever lived… and how many of those people are alive right now? We made a graph! It’s wild. If you added up all the people who ever lived you’d get about… Population data sources: Kaneda, Greenbaum, Haub, 2022; United Nations, 2022; and D. L. Poston Jr., Biraben, Jean-Noel,…

From Cleo Abram. A Zero G flight is incredibly strenuous – not just for the occupants (though definitely them too, it’s called the Vomit Comet for a reason!) but also for the plane! A Zero G flight requires 3 pilots to complete 31 maneuvers that involve repeatedly experiencing VERY steep inclines, HEAVY G forces, and…

From Cleo Abram. What if a big asteroid was speeding toward Earth… what are the 3 most realistic ways we could stop it? Option 1: You do nothing. There’s always a chance it misses us! Option 2: You SMASH A SPACECRAFT INTO it to change its course JUST ENOUGH that it misses Earth. Option 3……

From Cleo Abram. This is a tiny robot that delivers drugs exactly where they’re needed in the body – and nowhere else. It could one day save your life. It’s a tiny bead made of gelatin and magnetic particles with the drug dosage inside. It can deliver a drug right to the location of a…

From Cleo Abram. If you dug a hole toward the center of the Earth… how deep would you still find life? Recent research shows there are way more living things than we ever thought! It’s called the “DEEP BIOSPHERE” and we now know it’s more than twice the size of all of Earth’s oceans, combined!…

From Cleo Abram. 3I/Atlas, the interstellar comet, has sparked a lot of theories and let our imaginations run a bit wild. Recent reports have been focusing on the odd behavior of the comet’s tail. Some say it’s disappeared and others say it’s pointing in the wrong direction. So what’s going on? Subscribe to learn more!…

From Cleo Abram. In 1941 two researchers ran an experiment on some kids in Philadelphia. They hung ultraviolet “irradiation chambers” in some classrooms. The devices emitted ultraviolet light around the top of the room, above the heads of the children. They were testing to see how effective UV light was at killing germs – then…

From Cleo Abram. If the police find the stolen pieces from the Louvre, how will they know they’re real and not fake? Imagine you’re the thief and you’re trying to replicate the stolen tiara. What’s gonna get you caught is the pearls! Here’s why… That’s why I’m willing to bet we’ll find them… eventually. If…

From Cleo Abram. Bananas are radioactive. Just a little! But it makes me wonder… How many bananas would I have to eat to BECOME radioactive? And what causes this radioactivity to begin with? Subscribe to find out! #radioactive #radiation #bananas #science #shorts #subscribe

From Cleo Abram. In 1859, the sun released a blast of energy toward Earth. When it arrived, telegraph machines sparked and the Northern Lights were visible as far as the tropics. The bizarrely dark-red aurora made people think that cities were on fire. It was the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded, but it probably won’t…

From Cleo Abram. An asteroid might hit the moon and we might have to nuke it. No, seriously. Earlier this year, we thought this asteroid 2024 YR4 might be on track to hit Earth. Good news: It won’t. Bad news… it might now hit the moon… So, NASA just came out with a real proposal…

From Cleo Abram. We’re about to hit 7 million subscribers! We just need ONE MORE… If we dug a hole through the earth and held onto each other’s feet down it, we’d almost make it ALL THE WAY through to the other side of the earth! We’re assuming we’re all 6 ft tall 🙂 But…

From Cleo Abram. This is a new eye implant that’s giving people back their sight! And it could save your eyesight when you get older… The patients all had cells at the back of their eye that died because of an age-related disease, but doctors implanted a tiiiiiny microchip connecting to a pair of glasses…

From Cleo Abram. What happens when an asteroid hits the earth? It’s NOT like a bullet hitting a wall! An asteroid is going SO MUCH FASTER that when it hits, that hunk of rock or metal immediately turns from a solid into superheated gas… So if an asteroid were headed for Earth, what could we…

From Cleo Abram. If an asteroid is coming for Earth… what would we really do? Have a coffee with me! Try Cometeer with code CLEO for $20 off your Discovery Box on http://cometeer.com/cleo Imagine, it’s 2034, and a rock the size of a mountain, far off in our solar system is on a direct impact…

From Cleo Abram. Imagine you’re a bat hunting at night! This is a graph of your real flight path from some incredible new research… that’s teaching us something new about animals that hunt at night… Nighttime ecology is about as mysterious as the deep sea. For centuries, scientists have found that it’s extremely hard to…

From Cleo Abram. In 2011, a HUGE earthquake started off the coast of Japan…and no one saw it coming… That’s why just months afterwards, Japan started building a network of detectors in the ocean to cover the place where tectonic plates meet. It has increased warning times enough to divert incoming planes, trains, and boats,…

From Cleo Abram. I’ve been cheering at the wrong moment during a rocket launch… No! I mean, incredibly cool, but for the engineers, they’re still anxious, because liftoff’s just the START… a BIG test is about to happen around a minute in, at a point called “Max Q” And this is why it’s important… so…

From Cleo Abram. Watch this insect’s wings unfold to be TEN TIMES their folded size! How do they do it? Turns out, the secret isn’t muscles….it’s a stretchy protein that dictates the folding pattern, kind of like origami! We’ve taken inspiration from nature to help us engineer telescopes and solar panels, making it easier to…