Cleo Abram

Can you guess this animal? This is a drawing of a modern animal if you drew it the way many early science illustrators drew dinosaurs. They just drew skin wrapped around bone without muscle, turning this normal animal into a monster. This is called “shrink wrapping” and it has affected the way a lot of us think about what dinosaurs looked like… If you want to know more about dinosaurs, watch our longer video!

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Dinosaurs lived for WAY longer than most people think... My favorite fact about this is: There was more time that separates Stegosaurus from T-Rex than separates T-Rex from us! Watch our longer video all about dinosaur discovery, and follow for more optimistic science and tech stories... #dinosaur #animation #science #tech

This is the actual size of the brain of a dinosaur the size of an elephant! After discovering a skull of a Pachyrhinosaurus, scientists put it through a scanner, which helped them to reconstruct what brain would have fit inside. Here's what they learned... If you want to know more about dinosaurs, we made a whole longer episode for you! For more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for our show Huge If True. #dinosaur #science #stem #brain #askcleo

Where did the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs* actually land? Let me show you... This is the impact site of a giant space rock wider than Mount Everest is tall from 66 million years ago. But for a long time, we didn’t know it was there... We made a whole video about the cutting edge of dinosaur research, check it out! Follow for optimistic science and tech stories. *Only the big ones! Birds are dinosaurs! #animation #dinosaur #asteroid #stem

How big were dinosaurs really? Imagine you lined a bunch of them up by size… You’d see the tiny Anchiornis, the Compsognathus here, the famous velociraptor (smaller than I thought!), the Nyasasaurus, the Pachyrhinosaurus, the Triceratops, the Stegosaurus, the T-Rex! One of the largest known dinosaurs, the Argentinosaurus, was about as long and heavier than a commercial airplane... We made a longer video all about dinosaurs! Follow for optimistic science and tech stories. #animation #dinosaur #trex #science #stemfacts

How big are the world’s biggest boats? Really freaking big! And you might notice some of their designs are very different… I love boats and find the engineering behind them incredible. If you do too, we have more videos coming for you. If you want more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for our show Huge If True. #animation #boat #biggest #size #science #tech

This tiny new brain is a huge deal. Scientists mapped an entire fruit fly brain. It’s the size of a poppy seed. Our human brains are about the size of a cantaloupe. This map is different from other brain images you’ve seen because it shows all of the almost 140,000 neurons linked by over 50 million synapses. It took slicing the brain into 7,000 layers, imaging it 21 million times, and having hundreds of volunteers help piece it together to create. If we tried to do this to a human brain, it would take billions of dollars and hundreds of years! That’s not feasible right now, but this fly brain can tell us a lot already... Follow for more optimistic science and tech stories! #brain #animation #science #stem #scitech

SpaceX did it AGAIN, they caught their rocket booster! But it didn’t all go exactly as planned. Here’s what happened with the recent Flight 7… Catching this booster again is a HUGE deal. When a rocket is launched and reaches the boundaries of space, it breaks apart. The spaceship portion goes off into space, and the rocket booster portion comes back to earth. Traditionally NASA has their rocket boosters fall into the ocean - but that means costly recovery. But SpaceX has now for the second time directed that booster back to ground and caught it! Which is just SO COOL. And matters for making space flight more sustainable and cheaper. But the spaceship portion ran into trouble: It appears they had an oxygen and fuel leak, and “disassembled” in the atmosphere. All in, it’s a big moment that shows both the challenges of space and a leap toward making space more accessible. If you want more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for our show Huge If True! (Here or elsewhere) #animation #space #spacex #flight7 #rocket #starship

How EXACTLY did the dinosaurs* go extinct? I know a rock hit Earth… but then what? Here’s what happened on the day that a rock wider than Mount Everest hit 66.04 million years ago… If you want to know more about how scientists discover dinosaurs and reveal what happened to them, watch our longer video!

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just broke the record for the closest we’ve EVER been to our sun. And because of the sun’s gravity, it’s also become the fastest man-made object ever. Here's what it's doing and why it's so important... I can’t wait to see what data it sends back. To stay updated on optimistic science and tech stories, follow (here or elsewhere!) for more of our show Huge If True. #animation #space #NASA #parkersolarprobe #worldrecord

What would happen if I tried to fly a plane above another planet? On Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune... would it fly more easily? Would it come crashing down? Would it be shredded to bits? We’re very very lucky to live on this particular planet! Thank you to Randall Munroe's XKCD for this idea! We're big fans. If you like optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True... #animation #space #tech #whatif

The North and South poles sometimes swap places… You might know that the churning metal soup inside Earth’s outer core generates electrical currents, which in turn creates the magnetic field around the Earth - which is the reason you’re not getting fried by cosmic radiation right now. But what you might not know (ok, I didn't know until recently), is that every so often, that magnetic field actually REVERSES. But the coolest part is how we know that... Some scientists are trying to figure out how to predict the movement of the magnetic field, but thankfully, it protects us on the surface either way! We made a longer episode about the deep earth and you won’t believe what we find... #animation #deepearth #science #tech

Google just announced a crazy new quantum computing chip. It can solve a problem in 5 minutes that would take one of the fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years! BUT that problem was a “benchmark” problem called RCS, chosen specifically because it’s extremely hard for a supercomputer - which are still better at basically everything practical. The real reason you should care about quantum computers and this new chip is less about beating supercomputers at things they’re already great at and more about doing new things - like really accurate simulations of nature at a quantum level that could be used for drug discovery or battery development or more. This new chip matters for how we might get there. Here’s why… If you want to know more about the real future of quantum computing, Marques and I made a longer video! For optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True. #quantum #willow #scitech #science #quantumcomputing

What can astronauts eat in space? Well, sometimes pizza. And chocolate cake! But also... liquid salt? Most of the food on the International Space Station is either heat processed and ready to eat Or freeze-dried and just needs water. The lack of gravity makes assembling and eating food a bit harder… It also means there’s certain foods they simply can’t bring! Any loose crumbs could float into equipment and damage it, so salt and pepper come in liquid form, and to avoid bread crumbs, they eat a lot of tortillas! Zero gravity also makes food behave weirdly... As more people go to space, and for longer, we’ll need to find ways to effectively grow enough food with limited resources. For more optimistic science and tech stories, follow our show Huge If True. #space #tech #science #astronaut #food #snacks

Can you guess what this is? It’s a super close-up image of something you might have eaten. These images show detail smaller than the wavelength of visible light - which means they’re too small to be taken with a normal microscope.
 Instead, if you fire a beam of electrons at something and measure how they get either reflected or transmitted… you can see WAY more detail. It’s called an electron microscope. 

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If you’re wondering what the heck is going on with DeepSeek, the new Chinese-made AI model that’s causing a freakout in the US, here are the 3 things you need to know…
 AND in breaking news, Alibaba just released ANOTHER new AI model that does even better in some ways.
 We just released an hourlong interview with the CEO of NVIDIA, who’s at the center of all of this…

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How small is a transistor, really? Over time, we’ve made transistors SO much smaller, allowing us to fit more in the same space, making our devices WAY more powerful. But we're reaching a limit with the tech we use today... so researchers are working on new ideas... If you like optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more! #animation #stem #transistor #computer

This is incredible: What you’re watching is the embryo of a fruit fly while it’s developing. Scientists are using it to unlock secrets about human disease. Here’s what’s happening... Right now it’s going through waves of nuclei divisions from back to front. Then each nucleus becomes a cell, and the cells communicate and organize themselves while continuing to divide. But along the way, this process will get disrupted in normal embryos, in ways that can also happen unexpectedly in adult mammals (like us!) and lead to disease. So visualizing how cells work together and understanding what happens when things go wrong is helping scientists treat human diseases better. Plus, it just looks so… beautiful… If you want more optimistic science in tech stories, follow along (here or elsewhere) #science #tech #medicine #visualization

#ad Here’s what happens in the perfect @Formula 1 pit stop. I got to go see it happen in person at the Las Vegas Grand Prix! I love F1 and seeing this up close was a dream. But my favorite fact is how F1 teams have used the science of pit stops in other ways too… #Ad #F1 #Formula1 #science #tech

Scientists just identified this deep sea creature... In recent years, remotely operated deep sea vehicles have gotten a lot better - cameras, navigation, sensors, automation - allowing us to get enough data to finally classify this slug. And this sea slug is just one of more than 250 species discovered in the depths with the help of these new tools. If you want more optimistic science in tech stories, subscribe for more of our show Huge If True... #deepocean #deepsea #science #tech