We’re In A Weird Space Bubble

From Cleo Abram. Did you know scientists discovered that Earth and our solar system are inside a weird bubble in space? Our galaxy is normally super crowded with dense clouds of gas and dust. What you’re seeing is based on real data from the Gaia space telescope! Here’s what’s odd… These visuals are from the…

What If You Just Kept Holding Your Breath?

From Cleo Abram. What’s the longest anyone has ever held their breath? Do not try this at home. The official record for holding your breath and no air moving is… But with pure oxygen? Subscribe if you think it’s longer than 20 minutes! This is Huge If True, our optimistic show about science and technology.…

First Ever Huntington’s Treatment!

From Cleo Abram. For the first time ever, scientists have successfully treated Huntington’s disease! In this trial, scientists inserted a virus containing new DNA into the brain that helps neurons destroy dangerous proteins. Their data showed the treatment slowed the progression of the disease down by 75% – and this is just the start! For…

What’s Weird About This Tiger

From Cleo Abram. Notice anything weird about this tiger? Its stripes are way darker than a typical tiger! That’s because of a mutation that we’re seeing a LOT of now because of what scientists call the “bottleneck effect”… While this mutation doesn’t seem to hurt the tigers, it could have been a harmful genetic disease……

How Smart Are Chimps Really?

From Cleo Abram. This chimpanzee is using a STICK to eat termites! This is huge because for a long time we thought that only us humans made and used tools… … Until Jane Goodall carefully studied chimps in Tanzania in 1960. She revealed they were much more complex than we had ever thought, teaching us…

This Blue Blood Could Save Your Life

From Cleo Abram. This blue stuff is actually blood and it’s probably saved your life! It’s from a horseshoe crab and it’s really effective at testing human vaccines for contamination. If a clot shows up in testing, that means it’s not safe and scientists destroy the batch so it never ends up in YOU! The…

What If You Just Keep Going?

From Cleo Abram. I have a question… what if I just kept going away from Earth? Imagine you fly off at the speed of light. After 8.3 minutes, you’d reach our Sun. After 4 hours and 6 minutes, you’d pass the furthest planet in our solar system. How long do you think it takes you…

How Do Airplane Engines Work?

From Cleo Abram. Have you ever wondered how an airplane engine works? First, air outside the plane is sucked in by a fan, where some of it gets squeezed through rotating blades. Then comes the crazy part… For more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #airplane #jet #engine #science #technology

Our Sky In 10,000+ Years!

From Cleo Abram. This is our sky thousands of years in the future. That’s the Big Dipper! These visuals are from the American Museum of Natural History’s incredible show, Encounters in the Milky Way. It’s incredible. Go watch it! So while we’re orbiting the Sun, the Sun is hurtling through the galaxy at 800,000 kilometers…

How Fast Are You Moving?

From Cleo Abram. How fast are you moving right now? You might think you’re standing still right now and relative to the earth, sure! But the earth is spinning at 1,600 km/hr at the equator… that’s faster than the speed of sound… And it’s more confusing than that because the earth is orbiting the Sun,…

Why Earth Spun Faster This Summer

From Cleo Abram. Did you know the Earth was spinning faster this summer? This is a big deal, because lots of things depend on us knowing precisely where the earth is. Turns out there are 3 main things that can change Earth’s spin… To learn more optimistic science and technology, subscribe! #shorts #earth #space #gravity…

This New Train Drives Itself

From Cleo Abram. This train is driving itself, and it’s changing the way stuff gets to you! Traditional trains are great for long routes, but for smaller towns shipments can sit for days until there’s enough to justify a huge train to carry it. The solution? Creating autonomous trains…this is how they work. For more…

This New Plastic Does Something Special

From Cleo Abram. This new plastic has a superpower, and it’s incredible. It looks and feels like regular plastic… it’s just as strong…BUT it’s made of something unique and that matters. To find out why, subscribe! doi: 10.1126/science.ado1782 #shorts #plastic #technology #science

New Sign of Life On Mars (Really)

From Cleo Abram. Breaking news! This image could show life on Mars…. It was taken by the Perseverance rover in a place that was likely filled with water but dried up over time. The rover took a sample of the rock and here’s what it found… To find out what happens next, subscribe! #shorts #mars…

This Robot Dog Can Do A New Trick

From Cleo Abram. The world’s most famous robot dog can now do backflips! You all remember Spot, the viral robot dog from Boston Dynamics. Well, now he can do backflips! But why does that matter? And how did it learn?Turns out it’s surprisingly important… For more optimistic science & tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #robot #dog…

Why Don’t We Use Airless Tires Yet?

From Cleo Abram. This is an airless tire, which means it doesn’t pop when punctured! That’s REALLY important because this tire is for a truck headed to…the moon. But if it’s so great, why don’t we use it on Earth?? If you want to see the crazy robot arm on this truck, subscribe! #shorts #truck…

Penguin Poop Is Weirdly Important

From Cleo Abram. Scientists figured out that penguin poop does something very important in Antarctica! It’s an incredible fertilizer, but now it’s being studied because it’s the source of two important gases that work to create larger and larger particles in the air… Eventually becoming aerosols…and then CLOUDS that then cool the continent. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02312-2…

This New Device Might Save Your Life

From Cleo Abram. This device can remove blood clots in a new way…it’s called the “millispinner” and it’s tiny. Scientists are hoping it’ll be a more effective way of removing blood clots. Here’s how it works… For more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09049-0 #shorts #science #blood #stem #medicine

This Is Robot Boxing

From Cleo Abram. This is a boxing tournament for robots! It’s in China and the robots are built by a company called Unitree. They were trained on a bunch of different kickboxing moves using reference data from real kickboxers. They were told WHAT to do by humans and had to figure out HOW to do…

How NASA Saved This Spacecraft

From Cleo Abram. These incredible pictures of Jupiter were taken by this little spacecraft that got saved by some clever engineering! JunoCam was launched in 2011, and did 56 orbits around Jupiter over a decade, before it got damaged by the heavy radiation. So how did NASA fix it… #shorts #NASA #space #science #planet #animation…

The World’s First Space Truck

From Cleo Abram. This truck is going to the moon! So there are some big differences between it and your normal car… Why do we need a new moon truck? It can go faster than any vehicle ever has on the moon, which will help us go farther than we could before. To see me…

Biggest Black Hole Collision Ever

From Cleo Abram. Scientists just spotted the biggest black hole merger we’ve ever seen! Two black holes with masses over 100 times our sun collided into each other billions of light years away…creating ripples in the fabric of the universe that we detected here on earth. To go inside the places that detected these ripples,…