These Sound Waves Put Out Fire

From Cleo Abram. These are sound waves putting out a fire and they’re being used to protect homes! Fire needs 3 ingredients: Fuel, heat, and oxygen. Sound waves disrupt fire by pushing and pulling the oxygen molecules away from the fuel. This team is working on scaling up the tech for homes and making a…

What is the Fastest Winter Olympic Sport?

From Cleo Abram. What is the fastest Winter Olympic sport? #sponsored @NBCSports @YouTube #winterolympics Clocking in at up to 55km per hour are Olympic speed skaters. That’s about as fast as a TIGER can run, all while balancing on a skate only a millimeter thick! Next are ski jumpers, but they’re not as fast as…

This Should Be Your Favorite Olympic Sport

From Cleo Abram. This is your new favorite Winter Olympic Sport! #sponsored @NBCSports @YouTube #winterolympics Every 4 years the internet collectively loses its mind over one Olympic Sport: Curling. People make fun of it! There are endless jokes about cleaning and even comments questioning if it’s even a sport… I get it. Between the screaming…

Why Everyone’s Wrong About Curling

From Cleo Abram. Curling is the craziest Olympic sport by far. Trust me. This episode is #sponsored by @NBCSports @YouTube #WinterOlympics Every four years, people lose their minds over one Olympic sport. They make fun of it! But the more I learned about it, the more obsessed I got… and I realized that all these…

What’s Hidden Under This Mountain?

From Cleo Abram. There’s a giant science experiment deep under a mountain in Japan. It was built in 1996 and led to not one but two Nobel Prize-winning discoveries. This observatory looks nothing like anything you’ve ever seen and it could completely change how we understand the universe. For more optimistic science and tech stories,…

What Happens When Two Stars Collide?

From Cleo Abram. When two enormous stars in space collide, something wild happens here on Earth… At first, we don’t feel it! But Einstein predicted that massive things warp space and time around them. That’s what we call gravity. So when these stars collide, they create an explosion of light and ripples in space and…

Which Animal is the Most Efficient Traveler?

From Cleo Abram. This chart shows how efficiently all animals travel, including you! The closer to the top, the more energy the animal uses, and the farther to the right, the bigger it is. And it turns out you, a human, are pretty darn efficient. To find out what’s more efficient than a human, subscribe!…

This New Material Can Camouflage Itself

From Cleo Abram. This new material can camouflage itself like an octopus, changing its color and texture! Scientists get to choose what it looks like but it won’t automatically match any background…yet. They hope this tunable material could be used for new wearable devices or robots. For more optimistic science and tech stories subscribe! Doshi,S.…

They’re Doing Brain Surgery on Monarch Butterflies

From Cleo Abram. They’re doing brain surgery on Monarch butterflies to solve a big mystery. Every year, monarch butterflies migrate thousands of kilometers from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico. How do they know where to go?? We already know they use the sun’s position to help them determine direction. But what if it’s rainy…or…

The $1.5B Experiment In These Huge Concrete Tubes

From Cleo Abram. In the middle of the desert are huge, 4km long concrete tubes that are part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built. Inside the tubes is a pipe with fewer particles in it than the International Space Station flies through and at the end are some…

The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built

From Cleo Abram. This machine found something scientists thought was impossible… If you want to talk to Mico, go to this link: bit.ly/CleoAbram-Copilot In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built… Each tube…

The Deadliest Ocean Crossing Actually Protects You

From Cleo Abram. The Drake passage is known to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world… Pressure changes, unimpeded winds, and ocean currents make for exceptionally chaotic seas, but the deadly conditions here and everything that creates them also plays a vital role in protecting our planet. Subscribe to learn more! #DrakePassage…

This Is The Largest Chunk Of Mars On Earth

From Cleo Abram. This is the largest piece of Mars we’ve ever found on earth! It contains a rare glass created only under the intense shock wave pressures from an asteroid impact. We think this piece was ejected off Mars by an asteroid and sent hurtling towards Earth… But how do we know it’s from…

No One Knows Why Ice Is Slippery

From Cleo Abram. We actually don’t know why ice is slippery. Seriously! We know that there’s a tiny liquid layer that acts as lubricant on the surface of ice and that lets us slide across it, but scientists have been debating where that layer comes from for two centuries. Now, there’s a new theory… For…

Do Aliens Know We’re Here?

From Cleo Abram. If aliens looked at Earth from far away, would they know we’re here? Imagine little aliens speeding toward us – but their tech is the same level as ours. Astronomers just wrote a paper about what they’d see! For optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! DOI 10.3847/1538-3881/ada3c7 #shorts #aliens #space #astronomy #science…

We Discovered A New Fire Creature

From Cleo Abram. We just discovered a new creature… the FIRE AMOEBA. It can live at hotter temperatures than any other animal as complex as it. And it’s changing how we understand the conditions for life on earth and beyond… HUGE if true! For more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe. To read more: DOI:…

This New Device Uses a QUANTUM GPS

From Cleo Abram. This tiny device can navigate using quantum physics rather than GPS! Normally, a pilot needs four satellites to figure out its location… But this device uses atoms that act like compass needles sensitive to earth’s magnetic field, which is different everywhere! So it can record the magnetic “fingerprint” anywhere, no satellites needed!…

What Is 3I/ATLAS Actually Made Of?

From Cleo Abram. 3I/ATLAS is still zooming through our galaxy and capturing everyone’s imagination. Early reports are in about what it’s made of. But how do we know without physical samples? Turns out… You can learn a lot from light. Here’s how and subscribe to learn more! #comet #spectroscopy #space #interstellar #3iatlas #shorts

New Medical Treatment Saved This Little Boy’s Life

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…

Why White LEDs Almost Didn’t Exist

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

The Massive Machine Hidden Under Antarctica

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…

What’s the SMALLEST Black Hole?

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