Cleo Abram

Why does the ball for this year’s World Cup not LOOK like a regular soccer ball? Turns out, that difference really changes how the ball performs, and there’s a THIRD design that’s even more controversial. The trick is figuring out how to create a SPHERE out of a FLAT material But there’s also a secret sensor inside this ball! To see it, subscribe! #worldcup #fifa #soccer #football #trionda #physics

There’s a real hypothesis that ancient Earth may have looked very PURPLE. It’s no surprise that Earth from millions of years ago looked a lot different from the Earth we see today, but this hypothesis is changing how we think about what distant worlds containing life might look like. Astrobiologists use real science to look at the modern world and imagine alternative realities. That way if we truly find alien life we’ll actually be able to recognize it! #earth #aliens #space #science

If I jump into my computer and I see it’s getting HOT – that whirring noise - what is happening? All computers need to get the heat off the chip as quickly as possible and find somewhere to dump it This is a HEAT problem that’s holding back virtually all our cutting edge computers, because most of what’s around me right now is made of… silicon. But now there’s a new material we think might be able to help. To see what, watch our longer video and subscribe! #computer #silicon #diamond #heat #computing

What’s the biggest black hole? The size of black holes is insane… and there’s some debate about the winner! #blackhole #science #sizecomparison

In Antarctica, you’re NOT ALLOWED to pee on the ice. Not even when you’re hiking for hours! It’s so cold and dry that when it snows, it basically never melts, so it stacks up into layers of ice trapping air inside…and scientists drill ice cores to study that air and learn what the environment was like thousands of years ago So if you pee…it will get trapped in the ice too. To see what’s under the ice, subscribe! #shorts #antarctica #ice #science #geology

The moon is drifting away from us! Where is it going? It’s drifting about 4 centimeters per year, that's about the rate your fingernails grow, and we know that thanks to MIRRORS astronauts left on the moon. It’s moving away from us because of the TIDES! But will the moon ever actually LEAVE us? To find out, watch and subscribe! #moon #earth #tides #science #space

This surgery robot is cutting open and stitching back up… corn. And it could one day save your life. This tiny surgery is controlled by HUMAN doctors watching through a magnified camera. The robot helps take the doctor’s movements but scale them down into smaller, more precise ones, meaning it could one day operate on blood vessels or nerves, helping reattach limbs or fix nerve damage. For more optimistic science and tech stories subscribe! #science #surgery #robot #doctor #medicine

If you wanted to drill to the bottom of Antarctica, the first thing you need to realize is this ice is way thicker than you think. If we were to take a chunk out of this ice and place it on the surface, at its thickest, THIS is what it would look like… It turns out, there’s a LOT more going on underneath Antarctica than we ever realized. To find out what, subscribe! #shorts #Antarctica #ice #dig #science

When looking for alien life on other planets we tend to start by looking for the blue ones: planets with water. The idea is if a planet has water it likely has the building blocks for life. But another thought might be to look for the GREEN planets — planets covered in forests like our own. The trouble is, the further away you get from Earth… the less likely it is you’ll see anything green. Plus: what if alien plants… aren’t green at all? We’d need a stronger signal to see something special… To find out what, subscribe! #aliens #space #science

How does the privacy screen on this laptop actually work? It has to do with a hidden layer… @surface #ad

This guy was banned from the Olympics even though he had the fifth fastest time in the world…. He was using running blades but by itself that’s not illegal! The big question was, did he have a CORRECTION or an ENHANCEMENT… Do you agree with the decision? Tell me in the comments and subscribe! #shorts #blakeleeper #running #sports #tech

Most people think of diamonds as expensive jewelry, or maybe as super-hard drills. But everyone’s missing the coolest story here… We’ve built giant machines that can recreate the conditions inside our planet. And found new ways to make diamonds way cheaper, now unlocking the hidden potential of this super material. People are sending diamonds into space, adding them to massive computers, and using them to help solve one of the biggest technological problems we’re about to face. This is about pushing the limits of material science to benefit all of us. So in this video, we’re getting rare access inside a lab where they make diamonds to see how they actually do it… And we’re gonna shrink down inside your computer to show you why diamonds are not what you think. Chapters: 00:00 Diamonds are not what you think 01:38 Where do natural diamonds come from? 02:17 Why are diamonds so hard? 03:48 What's a diamond's secret superpower? 05:09 Why does my computer get so hot? 05:50 How small is a transistor? 06:43 What's the limitation of transistors? 10:32 Who grew a diamond first? 11:49 How do you grow a diamond now? 13:39 Are natural diamonds better than lab grown? 14:24 How could diamonds be used next? 15:21 Why are engineers so excited about diamonds? 16:28 :) You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram On TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cleoabram Bio: Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, HUGE* If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked. Additional reading and watching: - IEEE, Dr, Chowdhury, Diamond Blankets Will Keep Future Chips Cool: https://spectrum.ieee.org/diamond-thermal-conductivity - Akash Systems Diamond Cooling: https://akashsystems.com/technology - The Diamond Makers by Robert M. Hazen - "How Diamonds May Be Key in Making Microchips Faster" (Wall Street Journal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZImf2IMl6DI - "How to Make a Real Diamond" (JerryRigEverything): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5RprIJmfA - "The Heat Wall AI Can't Climb" (Tiff In Tech): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otUeXLF6tUw - "The quantum world of diamonds" (Nature): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCT0wDLyvSs - LattiSpec: https://lattispec.com/ - DARPA Ultra Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Program - How To Make A Diamond, JerryRigEverything https://youtu.be/6o5RprIJmfA?si=xLu6VpyQKlA62yCY - The 300-Year Quest to Make Real Diamonds in a Lab, Be Smart https://youtu.be/8ieWJq0MaXw?si=ST6P--N0kDmKSbrA Special thanks to: - Robert Basnett, CEO and Dr. William Holber, President & CTO of Plasmability - Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury of Stanford University - Pamit Surana, Co-Founder & CCO of Akash Systems - Liz Chatelain, Co-Founder of LattiSpec - Dr. Wuyi Yang and Dr. Evan Smith at the GIA - Dr Daniel Twitchen, Chief Technologist at Element Six (https://e6.com) - Dr. Samuel Graham, Jr., Dean of the Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland - Prof. Alastair Stacey from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory - John Ciraldo, CTO and Brittany Lewis, CCO of WD Advanced Materials Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/ Gear I use: Camera: Sony A7SIII Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox Follow along for more episodes of HUGE* If True: https://www.youtube.com/cleoabram?sub_confirmation=1 — Hey, welcome to the joke down low! Why was the diamond so good in the kitchen? It can handle the heat! Find a way to use “heat” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Turns out I’ve been estimating my dog’s age wrong, because “just multiply by 7” is NOT a real thing! The whole “my dog at 1 is like a human at 7, at 2 they’re 14, etc.” is not backed by any research! Instead, geneticists created this chart - and it’s CURVED. What they’re measuring is the same kind of biological marker researchers are using to study how WE age!. To find out more, subscribe! #science #ageing #biology #dog #genetics

They’re shutting down the biggest science experiment to build something even cooler. The Large Hadron Collider smashes particles together to discover new and rare ones, like the Higgs Boson. But right now, we only see the Higgs Boson in about 1 in a BILLION collisions… we need more collisions…. But how do they get those tiny particles to HIT EACH OTHER? To find out, subscribe! #science #particle #physics #CERN #LHC #experiment

This factory is breeding MOSQUITOS. 100 million of them EVERY SINGLE WEEK and then RELEASING them! But these aren’t ordinary mosquitos…they’ve been infected with a bacteria that prevents them from spreading certain diseases like dengue, and it’s working!! Now, Google wants to release 32 MILLION mosquitos into California and Florida. To see what happens, subscribe! DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-02728-y #shorts #mosquito #science #health #disease

We are trying to go faster than ever before on the moon… There was a competition to build the next truck to drive on the lunar surface and this one was one of two winners. It’s going to launch in 2028 and we got to test out the even more advanced version of this truck. To see that, subscribe! #shorts #moon #space #speed #earth

What if I just dug a really deep hole? That’s what the USSR did right here. It’s 7.6 miles or 12.2 kilometers deep, making it deeper than the deepest part of the ocean and deeper than Mt. Everest is tall. What we found was incredible! If you like optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #science #deep #hole #dig

If you rip open the new World Cup ball you’ll find this sensor embedded into the side It’s collecting data 500 times a second! During games, the sensor tells you where the ball is on the field and if it’s been touched by a player! This high tech ball helps track things like offsides or out of bounds or if a ball crossed the goal line To see sports tech that got BANNED for being TOO GOOD, subscribe! #worldcup #soccer #football #futbol #tech #trionda

Landing on Venus is a nightmare and not just for the obvious reasons. Venus has no magnetic field, pressure nearly 93x that of Earth, and temperatures that can soar over 450 degrees celsius (that’s hot enough to melt lead!). In the 1950’s, Soviet scientists started plans to do what seemed impossible: send a lander to the surface and take photos. Nearly 30 years later they actually did it, but it took a lot of trial and error and some creative engineering. To find out how they did it and more, subscribe! #space #Venus #science #Venera

All the way down in the center of Antarctica is a marker. That’s the geographic south pole - the southernmost point on Earth! Early explorers first raced to this location in 1911 and Scientists just moved it in January. Here’s why and when it will happen again. Subscribe for more! #Science #Geography #Antarctica

The tech inside your credit card is priceless. Imagine you shrink down to the size of your card… @Mastercard #ad #mastercardpartner

What would happen if the moon EXPLODED? Would tides disappear? Would big chunks RAIN DOWN on Earth? But most people don’t understand HOW FAR AWAY the moon is! To see that, subscribe! #shorts #moon #explosion #space #gravity #science

On the border between France and Switzerland is the biggest science experiment ever built. Deep underground are long pipes where they they fire particles smaller than atoms in opposite directions… speeding them up to nearly the speed of light until they smash together. But…HOW do they get such tiny particles to HIT each other? And to see why they built this crazy experiment, subscribe! #shorts #CERN #particle #physics #science

What would happen if the Earth was actually flat? Would we… fall off? Would we spin to the edge? To find out how scientists know what’s really at the center of the Earth, subscribe! #shorts #earth #flat #science #space #physics

NASA just announced the astronauts going on the Artemis III mission… This is the next step in the plan to put humans back on the Moon and eventually build a Moon base. This time the crew stays in Earth orbit, practicing the docking that has to work perfectly before Artemis IV lands on the Moon… To see more about that, subscribe! #NASA #space #Artemis #moon #science

Most people don’t understand how old diamonds really are. So we made a timeline to show you..starting from TODAY and going all the way back to when the oldest diamonds EVER formed. To learn HOW they form, subscribe! #shorts #diamond #earth #science #oldest #timeline Source: Evan M. Smith, James E. Shigley, Karen V. Smit, and Steven B. Shirey

This new plane flies FASTER THAN SOUND but QUIETLY. And it’s a big deal for bringing back supersonic planes YOU can fly in! NASA just did a recent flight test to see how it handles aerodynamic stress. To see the plane up close, go watch our longer video! #NASA #supersonic #X59 #plane #sonicboom

Why can’t a robot just click “I’m not a robot”? This tech is called reCAPTCHA, and robots are pretty good at them now! But it’s not about checking a box! It’s actually tracking other things, like how you move your mouse as you go to check the box. These tests are about what makes humans… human! For more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #recaptcha #robots #human #turing #computer

I’m about to drink some of the world’s purest water…in Antarctica. Why is this water SO crystal clear? And why are the rivers it comes from…BLUE? To find out, watch and subscribe! #bluerivers #antarctica #ice #water #science

I never realized just how small a transistor really is – the electronic switches in everything you use! Let me show you just how small we’re talking… and they’re trying to go even smaller… To learn how, subscribe! #science #size #transistor #small #zoom #tech