Cleo Abram

This is Disney’s famous “Holotile” - it’s basically a treadmill but in every direction! Here's how it works... Up close, you can see the floor I’m walking on is made of rotating circular tiles. One gear on the bottom controls overall spin, and another on top controls the angle of the head… But… how does it know which way I’m going? I think this is awesome. For more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for our show Huge If True! #animation #tech #stem #holotile #vr #lidar

This is the world’s most realistic lightsaber! It’s patented by Disney because they needed a REAL looking lightsaber in Disney Parks… What makes it special compared to toy versions is that smooth extension and perfect glow. Here's how it works... Inside, there’s a clear cap with two long translucent tapes attached to motors that unroll it from the inside, allowing the lightsaber to extend upwards. As they extend out of the hilt, the tapes bend into a concave shape to create a rigid blade. On the tapes are a series of bright LEDS that are programed with strobing and flickering effects to create that perfect lightsaber glow as you move it around. My last question was: What can I do with it? For optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True! #animation #lightsaber #science #tech #stem

These are photos that NASA chose to send to aliens. They’re riding on the first spacecrafts to leave our solar system, Voyager 1 and 2, which are now way out into interstellar space carrying golden records with these images on them. Here's what they show... It's a message about humanity, hurtling 17 kilometers per second through the space between stars so that maybe one day… someone will find it. For more optimistic science and tech, follow for more of our show Huge If True. #space #alien #interstellar #science

What if you dive into the Sun? The first layer you’d hit is hot enough to make diamonds BOIL. If you kept going and were magically protected, here's what you'd see... For more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for our show Huge If True. #sun #space #science #animation #deep #deepest

What if you got sucked into a black hole? First you’d be smashing into burning hot gas and dust inside what’s called the accretion disk. As you get closer to the center, you’d notice the universe looks like it’s speeding up, because the black hole is so massive it’s warping space and time around you. Going deeper, you’d reach a point where if you looked to your left or right, you might see the back of your own head! Because gravity here is so strong, light is getting bent completely around the black hole… You’re now approaching the event horizon. Where the gravitational pull is so strong, even light can’t escape. As you pass beyond it, in a supermassive black hole, your body is being stretched and squished. The gravity is increasing so quickly, your feet are pulled away from your head in a process called “spaghettification” And since no light can escape the event horizon, the last we’d see of you is a slowly fading image of what you looked like right before you crossed it. #animation #space #sciencefacts #spacefacts

Where is our Sun in its lifetime? Halfway through? Closer to the end? If you map out the stars, with the hotter ones toward the left and brighter ones toward the top, you’d get this famous chart showing a star’s life... Here's where our Sun is in its life right now, and what we think will happen next... We have more coming about black holes, so follow along! #sun #space #animation #science #stemeducation

Why is the sky blue? It's not. You might know that as sunlight passes through Earth’s atmosphere, it bumps into air molecules of different sizes… 
 If the light bumps into a particle that’s much smaller than its own wavelength, it scatters in another direction. And the shorter the wavelength, the more it’ll scatter.
 This means the colors with the shortest wavelengths get scattered the most by the molecules in our atmosphere - bouncing around and giving it its color… For more optimistic science and tech, subscribe for more of our show Huge If True. #science #tech #stem #color #animation

What if I dug a hole through the Moon? The first thing you’d hit are lava tubes! Here’s what happens if you go even farther… If you like optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True! #animation #deepest #science #technology #historyfacts

These two astronauts just got back from the International Space Station! They were supposed to be on the ISS 8 days, and they stayed more than 9 months. Here’s why... Back in June, they took off from earth on the Boeing Starliner. To reach the ISS, they had to chase it down, flying out to its orbit 250 miles above Earth and zooming to reach its speed of over 28,000 km/h. But as they approached, some of their thrusters malfunctioned. That made NASA worry the Starliner wouldn’t get the astronauts home safely, so they sent it back empty. But that meant these astronauts needed a different ride home! Usually there are around 7 crew on the ISS, and NASA swaps 4 out every 6 months or so. So in September, on the next planned SpaceX mission, they only sent 2 - leaving 2 seats back for our astronauts! And now, they’re safely HOME. For more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for our show Huge If True. #space #astronauts #ISS #NASA #spaceX

Where did the moon come from? Did it fly by the earth and get captured by its gravity? Did it form at the same time as the earth from the same stuff? Or did something else happen? The best theory right now is that the creation of the moon looked like this... For optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True… #animation #NASA #space #moon #physics

Nothing can escape a black hole… or can it? Physicist Dr. Brian Cox helps explain the cutting edge theories about black holes. We're making more stories about black holes so subscribe for more! #animation #science #tech #astronomy #blackholes #hawking #briancox

Scientists created "woolly mice." They're cute. This is a new kind of mouse created using gene editing to give it woolly mammoth-like traits because the company that made them is trying to bring back the Woolly Mammoth. Not cloning or resurrecting it, but editing existing animal’s genes to make it look like a woolly mammoth, which they plan to do with Asian elephants, their closest living relative. Along the way, they created this Woolly Mouse by analyzing preserved DNA from Woolly Mammoths to pinpoint genes that made them suited for cold weather and then looking for similar genes in mice. Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, scientists edited seven mice genes all at once and the mice turned out with thicker, wavier coats and a slower metabolism. They didn’t insert any new genes into the mice, they just combined a bunch of genetic changes that have already been observed individually in healthy mice into a single mouse. And we have an INCREDIBLE story coming about gene editing, so follow to see it! #science #tech #stem #crispr

This is a ROBOT STUNT DOUBLE. These “stuntronics” are how Spiderman launches over Disneyland. The Imagineers at Disney wanted to create a realistic performance in the park. But in the movies, Spiderman relies on CGI to pull off a lot of his moves. To do it in real life, it would be impossible for humans. But not for a robot! Here's how they did it... And my last question was: Will we see robot stunt doubles in movies? I think this is awesome. If you need more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for our show Huge If True! #animation #tech #stem #robot #spiderman

What IS a black hole, really? Let Professor Brian Cox explain…

At first, they were just a mathematical quirk - a weird solution to equations that seemed to otherwise fit our universe. They were only theoretical. But then… we started to find them…. If you want to know what it would be like to fall into a black hole, follow for more! #blackhole #animation #space #science #stem #briancox #physics

Here’s how the world’s toughest animal ended up on the moon! In 2019, a spacecraft was about to become the world’s first private craft to land on the moon… but then, it crashed. And it happened to be carrying a time capsule, including millions of pages-worth of information, human DNA, and at the last minute, they added tardigrades. Tardigrades are incredible. They’re my favorite animal because they have the ability to dehydrate themselves to survive extreme environments… like space! Scientists don’t know whether they survived the crash. They can’t rehydrate themselves. But technically, TECHNICALLY, Earths first off-planet colony might be made of water bears. Huge if true. For more optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True. #science #tardigrades #space #stem #animation #animals

How big is the world’s biggest rocket?

Here’s how SpaceX’s Starship compares to other rockets… and everyday buildings… If you like optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True! #animation #deepest #science #technology #historyfacts #spacex #starship #astronaut

What’s going on with Microsoft’s new quantum chip? It could be a huge deal but there’s a big debate about it! Here’s why... The reason we want quantum computers is they could do new things, like simulate the natural world even better. The reason we don’t have useful ones yet is that they need to be bigger. But the problem is when you make them bigger, they have more errors. That's because the information inside, the “qubits,” are incredibly sensitive and they get disrupted easily. So Microsoft tried to build a new kind of qubit - a “topological qubit” - where instead of storing the information in one place, they spread it out using a new state of matter called “majorana quasi-particles.” That’s awesome because in theory you could get fewer errors with a bigger quantum computer, because if you mess with one part, you still have the information in another! The big claim in their press release is that they have not only created these new qubits but can control them. BUT nobody outside of Microsoft has seen proof of the controlling part. In their peer reviewed paper, they show results that are consistent with Majorana quasi-particles, but don’t definitively prove that’s what they’re seeing. So what they’ve already shown is big, and what they MIGHT show is huge if true.

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If you dug a hole into Saturn, the first thing you'd realize is most of it isn't solid… It's got a frigid atmosphere of hydrogen and helium with icy ammonia clouds with winds that are about 4 times faster than the strongest hurricane winds on Earth. As we fall deeper into its layers, we discover more new and other-worldly things along the way... If you want optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True! #animation #science #space #saturn #digging

How big are the biggest stars? And the smallest? Here are some wild examples... If you want optimistic science and tech stories, follow for more of our show Huge If True! #space #sun #star #comparison #biggest

This is the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Why does it look like that? Let physicist Brian Cox explain... We’re making more videos about black holes, so follow along! #animation #blackholesun #blackholes #astronomy #EHT #telescope