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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. 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
From Cleo Abram. During World War II Navy sailors noticed something weird on their sonar. As it echoed down into the depths… a mysterious shadow pinged back. It was as large as the seafloor itself but it didn’t make any sense because it was only a couple hundred feet below them. Conspiracy theories sprung up,…
From Cleo Abram. The new LEGO SMART Play sets are full of new tech that bring my LEGO sets…to life. Here’s how. #LEGOpartner #LEGOSMARTPlay #LEGOStarWars , #LEGOUnboxing #LEGO2026
From Cleo Abram. The ice on Neptune is hot, black, and may cause the planet to rain diamonds. If you had to describe ice how would you do it? You’d probably say hard, white or clear but most importantly COLD. The ice on Earth is so familiar to us that it’s hard to imagine it…
From Cleo Abram. This is the most detailed map of dark matter we’ve ever made. It makes up 27% of our universe but we don’t really understand it because it’s INVISIBLE! This shows the previous map we had made with the Hubble telescope in 2007 and the new map, made by Webb. Clearer pictures of…
From Cleo Abram. There’s this weird phenomenon that keeps happening in our oceans. Animals keep evolving into crabs! There are a bunch of “false” crabs running around. Some of them are so convincing they’ve tricked scientists for decades. So why does this keep happening? Are we next? Subscribe to learn more. #Science #Evolution #Carcinization #Ecology…
From Cleo Abram. I spoke directly with the team who created the @nike Mind shoes to find out how they made them. #ad #TeamNike #Nike #science
From Cleo Abram. This is an underground, high-tech, greenhouse… Temperature, light, and watering are all autonomously controlled, and scientists tested the best artificial conditions for the grass The grass stays down here for up to 300 days a year until….they bring it to the surface for a MATCH. THIS is Real Madrid’s new “retractable pitch”…