From Cleo Abram. A brand new medical treatment seems to have saved this little boy’s life. Out of the 20,000 genes in his body, one has a rare mutation, causing a life-threatening disorder. To help, scientists took stem cells from his blood, then used a harmless virus to insert a new working gene… For more…

From Cleo Abram. These super common LED lightbulbs almost didn’t exist… You need 3 colors to make white light. But one was missing. Why? It has do to with how the electrons “dance”… #shorts #LEDs #technology #light #discovery

From Cleo Abram. At the bottom of the earth there’s a massive machine that’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen. That’s because it’s mostly buried under the ice and it’s not looking at the stars… It’s hunting ghosts! Specifically, “ghost particles” known as neutrinos. These mysterious particles come from somewhere in space and are smaller than…

From Cleo Abram. If you smushed the mass of everything on Earth, at what size would it become a black hole? For Earth, that size is… But do black holes that small exist? If you believe there should be more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #blackholes #earth #gravity #physics #math

From Cleo Abram. The Sahara desert fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. Yep. To understand how, you need to see these gorgeous satellite images… For more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #desert #rainforest #sahara #amazon

From Cleo Abram. Why do all snowflakes have six sides? It starts with a dust particle in a cloud…water vapor sticks to it and the molecules eventually freeze! Every water molecule has a bent “V” shape making them lock together at fixed angles, building a hexagon! But that’s just at the microscopic scale… For more…

From Cleo Abram. Let’s play a game! All of these animals lived with the dinosaurs. And then…the asteroid hit. Here are three match-ups, can you guess which of the two animals survived? If you got them all right, subscribe! These visuals were from the American Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit – go check it…

From Cleo Abram. Zero G flights are VERY difficult to pull off, particularly for the pilots. In order to make everyone on the plane feel weightless the pilots need to keep the plane perfectly around you. That means mastering a physics problem that requires three separate pilots. Here’s why. Subscribe for more! #shorts #science #technology…

From Cleo Abram. In the 1990s, scientists ran an experiment on people using a fake rubber hand. They found that they could trick your brain into believing that the rubber hand was part of your body… It’s a fun party trick, but it also teaches us about how our brains evolved. Since then researchers have…

From Cleo Abram. I have a question: What’s the biggest planet we’ve ever found in our WHOLE observable universe? Our first contender is HUGE. You could fit 23 Earth’s across it!! This planet is less dense than marshmallows. But if you’re good with a little more scientific uncertainty, our second contender looks like it’s even…

From Cleo Abram. For the first time ever scientists have spotted a large mysterious deep sea creature, said to be one of the “least-known animals left on the planet”… They are one of the deepest diving mammals on earth, spending most of their lives below the water where they can’t be seen. But… we could…

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…