Cleo Abram

What's Hidden Under Antarctica?

9 mai 2026

Something's hiding below the ice in Antarctica…. For optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! In 1970, a team of Soviet scientists started drilling. For 28 years, they kept going… until after nearly 4,000 meters… they suddenly stopped. Because they’d found something unimaginable: Liquid water. A secret lake, down below all this ice, that had been completely sealed off from the rest of the world for 15 million years. How? And… is there something alive in there? Creatures that have been evolving separately from the rest of the planet for 15 million years? Scientists started searching for more of these secret lakes, and as they did, they realized there is way more going on under Antarctica than we ever thought. I needed to know the truth about Earth’s most remote continent. So I've come all the way to Antarctica to show you what's really happening down below this ice. And exactly what they discovered when they finally broke inside… Chapters: 00:00 What’s hiding under Antarctica? 01:50 How thick is the ice in Antarctica? 2:30 What if you dig a hole into Antarctica? 4:13 What’s inside a crevasse? 4:56 How do we know what’s under the ice? 6:24 What if you go deeper? 07: 18 How old is the ice under Antarctica? 10:33 Why are there lakes under Antarctica's ice? 13:31 How can we study the subglacial lakes? 15:19 Did we find new life under Antarctica? 16:52 Can research in Antarctica help us find aliens in space? 17:41 What don’t we know? 18:12 What's next? 18:22 :) Special thanks to Dr. Steven Chown, Rebecca Warne and all of the amazing guides from the White Desert Foundation leading Science Week . 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: - History on the drilling into Lake Vostok: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annals-of-glaciology/article/deep-drilling-at-vostok-station-antarctica-history-and-recent-events/8DA18E684DD19E80E7D02F2FBD2DFA26 - Drilling into Lake Ellsworth: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/antarcticas-subglacial-lake-ellsworth-will-keep-its-secrets-for-now-75/ - WISSARD (Lake Whillans) drilling project: https://www.montana.edu/priscu/research/current/wissard-summary.html, https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/antarcticas-subglacial-lakes-support-prospects-for-life-on-icy-moons/ - SALSA (Lake Mercer) drilling project: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/researchers-extract-first-layered-lake-sediment-sample-from-subglacial-antarctica. - Beyond EPICA and Million year Ice Core Projects: https://www.beyondepica.eu/en/, https://www.antarctica.gov.au/science/climate-processes-and-change/antarctic-palaeoclimate/million-year-ice-core/ - Bedmap data from the British Antarctic Survey: https://bedmap.scar.org/ - The Polar Regions: https://nsidc.org/home, https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/ - Helen Fricker’s work + NASA’s ICESat tools: https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/, https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-diego-led-science-team-selected-for-nasa-satellite-mission, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1136897 - John Priscu's research on the Lake Vostok’s accretion ice: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.286.5447.2141 - What's Hidden Under the Ice of Antarctica? (Real Life Lore): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOnB47PyZJw - What’s Really Under Antarctica’s Ice (PBS Terra): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7AzHDaTHHo - What’s Under Antarctica’s Ice? (SciShow): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn9DWKSiqGQ - “The Lake at the Bottom of the World” (Documentary on Lake Mercer + SALSA Project): https://www.antarcticlakefilm.com/ 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 do polar bears and penguins not get on? Because they are polar opposites! Find a way to use “penguin” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

I Wrote a NEW Sci-Fi with Project Hail Mary Author Andy Weir

15 avr. 2026

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, “wrong math”). The reason that matters is that fiction can help you see the real world more clearly. Sci-fi is “huge if true”! This show is about real science and tech, but we’ve done a little sci fi to explain complex things. So I wanted to learn from Andy. In this conversation, we go deep inside Andy’s fictional worlds to see how exactly he makes them so real… And we play out a BRAND NEW sci fi story together in real time… Welcome to HUGE* Conversations. Chapters 00:00 Who is Andy Weir? 03:10: The world’s largest meteorite 06:04 Andy Weir’s secret spreadsheets 10:04 How Rocky became Rocky 13:02 Where Rocky’s story really began 15:07 What didn’t make it into the book for Project Hail Mary 17:22 How to create a true alien 19:25 Rocky’s body v. your body 23:38 Our new sci-fi story 27:23 How to tell if a planet has alien life 31:23 The biggest question if we do find aliens 36:48 How do you talk to a new alien species 41:16 The biggest changes in The Martian 44:55 The secret sauce of HUGE* and Project Hail Mary 48:15 Does sci-fi influence science 51:17 Andy’s new book 51:42 The biggest sci-fi changes in real life 54:54 The optimistic future Andy sees coming 57:35 What Andy Weir wants to be remembered for 58:42 Sneak peek at our next video! 58:53 :) 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: - Novels by Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary, The Martian, Artemis - "The Egg", a short story by Andy Weir - Webpage with details of Eridian biology https://www.galactanet.com/eridian/ - Interviews with Andy Weir: - The Talking Room with Adam Savage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SemyzKgaUU - Penguin Random House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bKLuAZvyw - Dr. Becky: https://youtu.be/JOgwM941nV4?si=MnS-VdLFJ_GcbShR - Re: Thinking with Adam Grant https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worklife-with-adam-grant/id1346314086?i=1000607234826 - Lecture at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2tfh6OUUYUw - Paper, "What Changed when Andy Weir's The Martian Got Edited?" by Ketzan and Schoch https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/317/317.pdf - NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/exep/ 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! What do you give an alien when they’re upset? Some space. Find a way to use “space” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

The Hardest Problem AI Ever Solved, with Google DeepMind CEO

7 avr. 2026

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 of our lifetime. Because the biggest way AI is going to impact your life, you can’t see. It’s not a chatbot or an image generator. It’s the tools he and his team are building that are invisible to you – in new drug design, nuclear fusion, natural disasters detection, quantum computers. So who Demis is and what he chooses to build matters a lot. And he’s fascinating… He’s a childhood chess prodigy who at 17 turned down a reportedly million dollar job offer from a gaming company to go to college instead, and then get a PhD in neuroscience. He founded his company DeepMind with a mission to “solve intelligence” – starting with beating video games. He sold that company to Google specifically because they promised to let DeepMind focus on scientific research. But as this has turned into the most intense technological battle in recent history, Demis is now in charge of much much more. He’s now behind basically everything Google does in AI. He’s making decisions that affect your life and millions of other lives every single day. So what is he planning to do with all that power? My goal is to show you the future Demis Hassabis wants to build, so you can decide for yourself what you think of it. Welcome to HUGE* Conversations. This interview was recorded on March 5, 2026 in London. Chapters 00:00 The AI most likely to save your life 02:04 Who is the man behind Google’s AI? 03:58 The 50-year mystery AI just solved 06:15 The moment that changed everything 12:30 Why every future drug will use AI 16:47 The cutting edge of drug discovery now 19:13 How DNA-editing and AI work together 21:52 "I would have left AI in the lab longer" 25:39 The "Code Red" that changed google 29:16 Move 37: When AI got creative 34:24 Why true intelligence is so hard 37:22 From zero to world champion in 24 hours 43:09 How militaries should use AI 45:40 AI risks nobody talks about 50:13 What humans can do that AI can’t 55:17 The sci-fi future Demis imagines 58:17 What Demis Hassabis wants his legacy to be 1:00:14 How to get "superpowers" with AI 1:01:56 How to prepare for AI 1:04:59 :) 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: - The Thinking Game (documentary) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ - AlphaGo - The Movie (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y&t=3159s - Veritasium's "AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI&list=WL&index=5&t=74s - Google DeepMind: The Podcast, "The future of intelligence | Demis Hassabis": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVbypvxDto&t=120s - AlphaGenome Announcement: https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/ - AlphaFold paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 - Isomorphic Labs: https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/ - Demis' definition of AGI: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1925464027213468029 - WeatherLab (interactive site): https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab -Material Science AI (GNoME): https://deepmind.google/blog/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/ - Quantum Computing AI (AlphaQubit): https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/ 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! What did the robot say to its leader? “AI, captain!” Find a way to use “captain” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

The New Hunt for the Colossal Squid

28 mars 2026

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. Now, there’s a NEW WAY to discover the animals hidden in the deepest oceans. And all you need is a drop of water… In this video, come with us as we dive into our deepest oceans. Together we’ll see what’s hiding there, explore how we discover new animals today, and reveal the shocking new tech that is unlocking a new age in deep ocean discovery. Huge if true! Mercury Note: Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC. Chapters 00:00 What did they find in the deep ocean? 03:16 What animals are hiding in the twilight zone? 05:29 How do we find giant monsters in the deep? 06:43 What else is still hiding in the abyss? 07:42: Why do they get so BIG? 10:20 What can a drop of water tell us? 11:28 How does eDNA work? 12:24 Can we find the colossal squid? 15:03 What about totally unknown species?? 16:19 What’s the new frontier of ocean discovery? 17:04 Why is this huge if true? 18:00 :) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 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: - NOAA's eDNA Fact Sheet: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/environmental-DNA-fact-sheet.pdf - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: https://www.mbari.org/know-your-ocean/what-is-environmental-dna-edna/ - How eDNA technology is changing the game for protecting ocean species: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/12/this-will-finally-lift-the-veil-how-edna-can-see-the-oceans-hidden-life - Tracking Down Ocean Species On the Go Using eDNA: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/tracking-down-ocean-species-go-using-edna#:~:text=A%20drop%20of%20the%20prepared,previously%20run%20via%20the%20internet. - New DNA tool 'changes everything in marine science: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science - DNA left by ocean animals provides rare glimpse of marine ecosystems, Stanford researchers say: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/06/dna-left-ocean-animals-provides-rare-glimpse-marine-ecosystem - Exploring Deepwater Ecosystems with eDNA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gSSLigCl8Y - eDNA in the Twilight zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2djwE5-SG8 - eDNA: How Scientists See Hidden Animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8m8SLQZX0Q - How we can detect pretty much anything: https://youtu.be/bdwU_ZPk1cY?si=CMe19bv49U2PcBrP - The Wild: Eily Andruszkiewicz Allan: The magic of eDNA https://www.kuow.org/stories/eily-andruszkiewicz-allan-the-magic-of-edna - NOAA's Ocean Omics: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/noaa-omics/ - Ocean Census: https://oceancensus.org/ - 1OceanFoundation: https://www.1ocean.org/news/the-untold-story-of-mediterranean-sea-through-environmental-dna - UNESCO: https://www.unesco.org/en/edna-expeditions - Minderoo OceanOmics Centre: https://www.minderoo.org/resources/oceanomics/ - WilderLab (where our test kit is from!): https://wilderlab.co/ 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! What do you call a fish with no eye? A fsh. Find a way to use “fsh” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists

5 févr. 2026

This 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 people making fun? They’re getting this totally wrong. This is the coolest Olympic sport by far. The sport I’m talking about is… CURLING. From stones so unique they all have to come from one tiny island, to a tech doping scandal nobody wants to talk about. It’s a game with strategy so complicated it’s called “chess on ice”. And a physics mystery that’s gone unsolved for over a century that could one day help us design robots for space. And that’s just the start… Trust me, you don’t know enough about Curling…YET. So I’m going to take you onto the ice at the Olympic Trials… to show you what everyone’s missing and why Curling is the Olympic sport you should be watching. Chapters 00:00 What's the most fascinating sport at the Winter Olympics? 01:40 How do you play curling? 02:57 Why are curling stones so crazy? 04:46 Why is curling chess on ice? 05:48 Why do they sweep in curling? 08:18 What is Broomgate? 10:11 How do curling stones defy physics? 11:58 What is the science of rubbing? 15:16 Why do people make fun of curling? 15:56 :) 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: - Curling clubs near NYC: https://licurling.org/, https://ardsleycurling.com/ Special thanks to Long Island Curling & Ardsley Curling for all of their support in the prep and research of this episode! -World Curling: https://worldcurling.org/ -“History of the Game” https://www.scottishcurling.org/curling-history/history-of-the-game/ -“What is Curling?” https://www.stlouiscurlingclub.org/index.php/try-curling/about-curling - Curling Clips YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CurlingClips - “Study of curling mechanism by precision kinematic measurements of curling stone’s motion” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9440934/ - “The slippery science of Olympic curling: we still don’t know how it works” https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/02/the-slippery-science-of-olympic-curling--we-still-dont-know-how-, - Original study: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000112841493&seq=657 - “Why all Olympic curling stones come from a Scottish island” https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-68699328, - Kays Scotland https://www.kaysscotland.com/ - “PHOTO ESSAY: Scottish island Ailsa Craig is the granite source for Olympic curling stones” https://apnews.com/photo-essay/olympics-curling-island-ailsa-craig-scotland-photos-90cc3742fe35b63b87755ad126942c42 -“Ailsa Craig” https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/ailsa-craig-91856/ -World Curling “Around the House: Operation Ailsa Craig” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPMe-pElwho -Glossary on curling terms: https://www.olympics.com/en/news/glossary-of-curling, 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 did the curling stone learn the guitar? It wanted to be a rock star. Find a way to use “rock star” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built

20 janv. 2026

This machine found something scientists thought was impossible… If you want to talk to Mico, go to this link: https://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 is 4 kilometers long, and inside there’s a big metal pipe. And at the end of each pipe, scientists place some of the smoooooothest mirrors ever made. And then they fire a powerful laser that gets split down each tube, bouncing it back and forth… building up more and more power… until… they bring those beams back together… to discover something that just 100 years ago scientists thought was impossible to find! Finding it took hundreds of scientists and over a billion dollars. But what did we find?? And what’s the cutting edge we’re finding NOW that makes those scientists want to build… AN EVEN BIGGER ONE? Let me show you… Chapters 00:00 What's the most precise experiment humans have built? 01:41 How do we know what’s out in the universe? 02:33 What if two stars collide? 03:41 What are gravitational waves? 6:34 What's inside the concrete tubes in the desert? 5:50 How did they build the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory? 07:42 How does the laser experiment work? 09:20 What's the LIGO dance? 11:14 What are the most reflective mirrors in the world? 14:02 What happened when they turned on the laser machine? 15:17 Did we detect gravitational waves? 16:16 Can we manipulate gravity? 17:44 :) 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: - LIGO: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/learn-more - Paper on First Gravitational Wave Detection: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03837 - Einstein's Theory of Gravitation: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/research/science-field/einsteins-theory-gravitation - Advancements to LIGO: Quantum Squeezing: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20231023 - Advanced LIGO Documentary “LIGO”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX4vCNi544w - Caltech, “LIGO: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves”: https://youtu.be/wrqbfT8qcBc?si=39S3-hcXpU6Dwiyg - Physics Girl, “I Visited the First Gravitational Wave Detector! LIGO | STELLAR”: https://youtu.be/jtp71NT0GNg?si=6BUilmCISXlwN8qr - Veritasium, “The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves”: https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10?si=DFZYSAIyW90oIoNe - Caltech “How Squeezing Light Reduces Uncertainty in LIGO's Measurements”: https://youtu.be/q5lnamXhnfI?si=QrbgPVHwkYs1CEip 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! What did Gravity say to Light? Nothing, it just waved! Find a way to use “wave” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Humanity’s Real Plan to Stop This Asteroid (Feat. Mark Rober)

15 nov. 2025

If an asteroid is coming for Earth… what would we really do? Have a coffee with me! Try Cometeer with code CLEO for $20 off your Discovery Box on http://cometeer.com/cleo Imagine, it’s 2034, and a rock the size of a mountain, far off in our solar system is on a direct impact course for Earth. How would we know? And what would we actually DO about it? In this video, we play out a fictional asteroid headed for Earth – with help from my friend and former NASA engineer Mark Rober and rare access into a remote facility where they discover NEW asteroids – to show you all the real science and tech we would use to defend our planet if an asteroid is about to hit Earth! [SPOILER] Our rock was published in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular (MPEC) here! MPEC 2025-K125 : 2025 KS6 Chapters: 00:00 Did an asteroid hit Earth? 01:00 What happens if an asteroid is headed towards Earth? 01:52 Is that Mark Rober? 03:26 How big was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? 04:30 What happens when an asteroid hits Earth? 07:30 How are asteroids discovered? 10:39 Will an asteroid hit Earth? 13:15 Can we stop an asteroid? 15:27 What if we nuke an asteroid? 18:03 Did we discover an asteroid? 19:41 Did we stop the asteroid from hitting Earth? 20:42 Why is this HUGE* If True? 21:34 Can we escape Alcatraz? 21:42 :) 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: - Veritasium, "These are the asteroids to worry about": https://youtu.be/4Wrc4fHSCpw?si=WhtX_q0TRzimx17b - NASA “Planetary Defenders (NASA + Documentary)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOb2DQWvDvc&t=665s - NASA's Near-Earth Object Observation Programs (Including Catalina Sky Survey): https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-neoo/ - JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS): https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ - The Minor Planet Center: https://minorplanetcenter.net/ - International Asteroid Warning Network: https://iawn.net/ - Space Mission Planning Advisory Group: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/smpag#:~:text=It%20was%20formally%20endorsed%20by%20the%20Committee,page%20is%20the%20technical%20reference%20for%20SMPAG. - DART Mission: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Mission/index.php - ESA, Asteroid Danger Explained: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/06/Asteroid_danger_explained - Definitions & Assumptions - NEO: https://neo.ssa.esa.int/definitions-assumptions 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! What do you call a famous asteroid? A rock star. Find a way to use “rock star” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

The Real Reason We Should Revive Extinct Animals

14 oct. 2025

The real story about “de-extinction”... Try RHINOSHIELD with code CLEO for 10% off https://url.rhinoshield.io/CLEO The Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in 1982. But now… scientists are trying to bring it BACK. And it’s not alone! You might’ve seen news about dire wolves, woolly mammoths, passenger pigeons… dodo birds… dinosaurs?? “De-extinction” has become a huge and urgent scientific debate. But when I took a deep dive into what’s really going on here, I realized we're getting this conversation very, very wrong. We're on the cusp of a huge genetic breakthrough… and yet the most "huge if true" thing happening here isn’t bringing back extinct animals. It's what this means for all the animals alive today! And very few people seem to know about it… Chapters: 00:19 Can we bring back extinct animals? 01:22 Can we bring back a mammoth? 02:24 Is Jurassic Park possible? 05:44 Are Dire Wolves brought back from the dead? 6:26 What is de-extinction? 09:04 How do we save cute little animals? 11:08 Is the Tasmanian tiger coming back? 12:50 When is it ok to bring back an extinct animal? 14:09 What’s coming next for de-extinction? 15:10 Why is this huge if true? 15:42 :) 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: - SciShow “What Caused the Mass Extinction of Billions of Passenger Pigeons?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twr53QVGh0E - Colossal "The First Dire Wolf Howl in Over 10,000 Years" https://youtu.be/vPX4tm-J2bU?si=RtSR_kFiJsueBzVL - PBS Terra “What if we Brought Back the Passenger Pigeon”: https://youtu.be/7z8rXihJV4Y?si=QhhVkvc0u0fjZ8WE - Nature on PBS “Coral Reefs That Can Finally Beat the Heat | WILD HOPE”: https://youtu.be/adcfkAplT_4?si=f4wby33bHOUTrDT- - TIME “No Longer Extinct? Colossal Biosciences' Dire Wolf Project” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ta3TX2Zgw - Science Magazine “Pleistocene Park: Born to rewild” https://youtu.be/IWnlPYu3ovQ?si=9fAMoiQtMSy8Wm14 - Be Smart “The Strange Evolutionary Story of the Thylacine”: https://youtu.be/fHs_lniTNvI?si=Hq3G4GOFuFSsfL5l - The Joe Rogan Experience “#2338 - Beth Shapiro” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsMH1-Bbqr0 - You can learn more about Black Footed Ferrets and the work from Revive & Restore on their website: https://reviverestore.org/ - To read about the efforts to biobank animals check out the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance: https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/biodiversity-banking 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! What do you call a dinosaur that never gives up? Try-ceratops! Find a way to use “try-ceratops” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Why NASA Is Sending This Truck To The Moon

30 août 2025

This truck is going to the moon. So we put it to the test… Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans. Use code CLEO at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/cleo This is the world’s first “space truck.” It’s going to the moon to help us go farther, faster, and discover places we’ve never been… Because humans are about to go back to the moon for the first time in 50 years! And no one but its builders have ever driven it… until today. In this video I'm going to put this brand new space truck to the test in a series of 5 challenges. And I've invited someone who knows a thing or two about challenges: YouTube daredevil and host of Challenge Accepted… Michelle Khare! Let’s go. Subscribe to @MichelleKhare 's channel for Challenge Accepted: https://www.youtube.com/@MichelleKhare Chapters: 0:00 This is the world’s first space truck 0:38 Introducing Michelle Khare! 01:04 What is a space truck? 01:52 How do astronauts drive? 02:21 First impressions! 02:47 Moon truck v normal truck 04:47 How fast can you drive on the moon? 05:18 Will we crash? 08:36 Can we break the lunar speed record? 10:33 Why go faster on the moon? 11:12 How does an astronaut get rescued? 13:52 Can this truck drive itself? 17:00 Why do we need a self-driving space truck? 17:48 How does an astronaut gather samples? 22:03 NIGHT DRIVING 22:41 Why is this Space Truck huge if true? 23:00 :) 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: - Watch Michelle’s new video doing Tom Cruise's deadliest stunt: https://youtu.be/IcDr8_oleB4?si=K7wuiEjv3Xkk9fs0 - Watch Michelle do another incredible challenge: Houdini’s Deadliest Trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UdXsm9gJ-s - How to Make A Space Truck: Welcome to Lunar Outpost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmHh6AMeMHU - How We Are Going to the Moon (NASA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8cn2J13-4 - Apollo Moon Landing, NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcDftgR5UQ - How Could We Build a Moon Base Today, Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQkz0aRDe8 - Moon 101, NatGeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AviDjR9mmo - How NASA Drives the $144M Vehicle that Transports Rocket Ships, Business Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5caQPiRBCAA - Lunar Outpost LTV: https://www.lunaroutpost.com/ltv - NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicles: https://www.nasa.gov/suits-and-rovers/lunar-terrain-vehicle/ - Three Commercial Moon Rovers Undergo Testing at NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/new-commercial-artemis-moon-rovers-undergo-testing-at-nasa/ - NASA Selects Companies to build Lunar Terrain Vehicles https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-companies-to-advance-moon-mobility-for-artemis-missions/ - NASA Artemis Mission https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/ 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 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 — Welcome to the joke down low: Why’s the moon so hungry? ’Cause it’s only full once a month Find a way to use “hungry” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next

8 août 2025

We’re about to time travel into the future Sam Altman is building… Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories. I interviewed Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. They’re trying to build a “superintelligence” that could far exceed humans in almost every field – and they just released their most powerful tool yet, GPT-5. A few years ago, that would’ve sounded like science fiction! Not anymore. In fact, they’re not alone. We’re in the middle of the most high stakes global race any of us have ever seen. Hundreds of billions of dollars and an unbelievable amount of human work… It’s a profound moment. Most people never see a huge technological shift like this in their lives and it’s happening all around us right now. So in this conversation, I’m going to try to time travel into the future with Sam Altman, to see what he’s trying to build… so you and I can really understand what’s coming. Welcome to HUGE* Conversations. Chapters: 0:00 What future are we headed for? 2:06 What can GPT-5 do that GPT-4 can’t? 6:57 What does AI do to how we think? 10:52 When will AI make a significant scientific discovery? 13:09 What is superintelligence? 16:17 How does one AI determine “truth”? 18:35 It’s 2030. How do we know what’s real? 21:20 It’s 2035. What new jobs exist? 24:02 How do you build superintelligence? 26:00 What are the infrastructure challenges for AI? 28:18 What data does AI use? 29:50 What changed between GPT1 v 2 v 3…? 32:55 What went right and wrong building GPT-5? 35:40 “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI” 37:57 It’s 2040. What does AI do for our health? 40:00 Can AI help cure cancer? 41:10 Who gets hurt? 43:00 “The social contract may have to change” 45:22 What is our shared responsibility here? 49:21 “We haven’t put a sex bot avatar into ChatGPT yet” 51:40 What mistakes has Sam learned from? 53:10 “What have we done”? 57:40 How will I actually use GPT-5? 59:40 Why do people building AI say it’ll destroy us? 1:03:16 Why do this? 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 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. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answer the question: If this works, what could go right? 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. Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/ Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox — Welcome to the joke down low: What's an AI's favorite sport? The hundred meter — Find a way to use “—” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

5 Wild Experiments In Zero Gravity (Bonus Episode)

26 juil. 2025

I tested 5 wild experiments in a zero gravity plane... Listen with me on Audible at https://www.audible.com/cleo I'm scanning my brain inside a plane that’s about to DIVE toward the ground… to test how weightlessness helps or hurts your brain. And it’s just one of the 5 crazy science experiments I got to test inside a Zero G plane. I recently went on this Zero G plane to explain a big debate about gravity, and while I was there, I also got exclusive access to experiments that can ONLY happen in zero gravity. I just knew you’d love to see it. So, in this extended cut, I’m going to give you a rare glimpse inside this falling laboratory and show you how the experiments they’re doing could be huge if true… Chapters: 0:00 What happens to your brain in space? 0:32 Why scientists want to fall from the sky 1:10 How do zero gravity planes work? 1:56 Experiment 1 3:58 Experiment 2 5:28 Experiment 3 7:23 Experiment 4 8:50 Experiment 5 10:27 Why these experiments are huge if true 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: - Why Gravity Is A Lie, Explained in Zero G, our previous episode of Huge If True! https://youtu.be/5zJbE7J3X8I?si=KbOiyJXMAaXzS4hX - Experiment 1: Blood Sucking Pants: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable-lower-body-negative-pressure/overview/ - Experiment 2: Space Pilates: https://www.nasa.gov/reference/jsc-exercise-countermeasures/ - Experiment 3: Brain Study: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/lab-for-equilibrium-investigations-and-aerospace/space-research/projects/parabolic-flight-campaign-2024-2025/ - Experiment 4: John McFall Astronaut Prep: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/John_McFall - Experiment 5: Photonic Propulsion: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail - What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=vg_FzbxI7-xuaqzf - Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty, Wired with Professor Janna Levin: https://youtu.be/QcUey-DVYjk?si=oaDEWY17EzaY5QDP - A new way to visualize General Relativity, ScienceClic English: https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=weHFqeZVPJ56mCRy - What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes, my interview with Brian Cox: https://youtu.be/bY1EQ6HD-ao?si=RBkiPjEd6RXlJR2J 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 — Welcome to the joke down low: Are you still reading that book about zero gravity? Yeah, I can’t put it down. Find a way to use “down” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G

15 juil. 2025

There’s a big problem with gravity… Build and learn with KiwiCo! Go to https://www.kiwico.com/cleo and use code CLEO to get 50% off your first month of KiwiCo. Gravity is a lie. I went into zero gravity to explain why… But it won't be easy because gravity is actually one of the most controversial subjects in all of physics. This is not some philosophical debate. A huge amount of the tech you use every day depends on our current (limited) understanding of gravity. If we can understand gravity a little bit better, we can build more things that are huge if true! So in this video, I joined the European Space Agency on a real zero gravity flight and interviewed theoretical physicists to understand: What really IS gravity? And what are the real life sci-fi ways we might use it in the future? Chapters: 0:00 The big problem with gravity 0:58 What is a zero gravity flight? 1:40 What is gravity? 2:49 What’s Einstein’s equivalence principle? 3:40 What does zero gravity feel like? 5:52 Why is falling the same as floating? 6:58 How did gravity disappear? 9:28 Why is gravity not a force? 11:35 What is spacetime? 13:16 Why does this matter? 14:58 Why is gravity fake? 15:48 What are the four fundamental forces? 16:50 Quantum mechanics v gravity 17:55 The theory of everything! 18:51 AdS/CFT 20:10 What if we could change gravity? 21:50 Something you might love 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: - Professor Janna Levin’s Dispatches from the Universe: https://jannalevin.substack.com/ - Where Did the Universe Come From? And other books from Professor Geraint Lewis: https://www.geraintflewis.com/ - The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity, Professor Juan Maldacena: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200 - The AdS/CFT Correspondence, Veronika Hubeny: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00007 - What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=vg_FzbxI7-xuaqzf - Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty, Wired with Professor Janna Levin: https://youtu.be/QcUey-DVYjk?si=oaDEWY17EzaY5QDP - A new way to visualize General Relativity, ScienceClic English: https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=weHFqeZVPJ56mCRy - What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes, my interview with Brian Cox: https://youtu.be/bY1EQ6HD-ao?si=RBkiPjEd6RXlJR2J - Space-Time: The biggest problem in physics, Quanta: https://youtu.be/RIqVnFtOSr4?si=0cCObYwb3n1vAPOi 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 — Welcome to the joke down low: Why did Einstein develop a theory about space? Well, it was about time! Find a way to use “time” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Editing Your DNA, with Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna

17 mai 2025

Human DNA editing is finally here. Check out the new WHOOP here! https://join.whoop.com/cleo There is a microscopic technology that now gives us the power to edit our own genes while we’re alive. To cure certain diseases, possibly prevent others, or boost what our bodies can do… or maybe, one day give our kids abilities no one has ever had before… effectively putting evolution into our hands. This is not some sci-fi future! We’re already using this technology in real medical treatments in plants to grow new crops and in animals to create new species! Just yesterday, news broke that a baby’s life was saved using personalized gene editing that fixed one tiny error in its DNA. This is truly “huge if true.” Deciding how we use this new superpower may be the biggest challenge we have ever faced - and the biggest opportunity to reduce human suffering. This tool is called CRISPR. Dr. Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for discovering it. So, in this third episode of Huge Conversations, Dr. Doudna and I use specific examples to help you see how gene editing directly affects your life right now - and help you decide for yourself: How should we use it? When is it wrong - and when is it wrong NOT to? If you want to know what the most important people building the future are imagining it will look like, Huge Conversations is the show for you. This interview was recorded on March 20th, 2025. Watch our trailer to understand more about the mission of Huge Conversations: https://youtu.be/JbKzSDfDdns?si=0PLbyG-RkFGqi9jQ Chapters: 0:00 Human DNA editing is here 1:20 What’s the goal here? 2:56 What is CRISPR? 4:34 How does gene editing work? 6:18 How should humans edit our genes? 7:22 You v. your kids 9:37 The first CRISPR gene therapy 12:37 What can CRISPR cure? 13:48 Challenges with delivery 16:34 Curing Huntington’s 18:34 The first CRISPR-edited babies 22:27 When should we use CRISPR? 26:03 Can I edit my DNA to prevent disease? 29:18 Can I enhance myself? 31:11 When shouldn’t we use CRISPR? 34:14 When don’t you need DNA edits? 36:32 Superpowers?? 38:17 How should we edit plants and animals? 42:57 The funniest CRISPR gene edit is really useful 45:37 Editing our own microbiome 48:28 The bigger picture 50:16 What Dr. Doudna is excited about now 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 Additional reading and watching: - Dr. Doudna's book, A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-crack-in-creation-jennifer-a-doudnasamuel-h-sternberg?variant=40828378152994 - Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html - CRISPR Explained, Mayo Clinic https://youtu.be/UKbrwPL3wXE?si=FIGuEQdycVfGQR-k - Biologist Explains CRISPR, WIRED https://youtu.be/sweN8d4_MUg?si=-mlG8CXx1OjTdhmr - How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA, Jennifer Doudna, TED: https://youtu.be/TdBAHexVYzc?si=6C96AyPktzrG0d9q - CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think, Jennifer Doudna, TED: https://youtu.be/HANo__Z8K6s?si=ogZMk9JZgoegntjs Bio: 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. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answer the question: If this works, what could go right? 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. Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/ — Welcome to the joke down low: "Your DNA is backwards" "And?" Find a way to use “AND” (all caps) in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes (Interview with Brian Cox)

3 mai 2025

Black holes reveal something astonishing about our universe. Take your personal data back with Incogni. Use code CLEOABRAM at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/cleoabram This extended cut is a deep dive into cutting edge research about black holes. It’s an interview with famous physicist Dr. Brian Cox. We start with “what if you fell into a black hole?” and end on the cutting edge research that had me questioning my whole reality. I interviewed Dr. Cox originally for a shorter Huge If True episode all about what would happen if you fell into a black hole. Watch our Huge If True episode about “What If You Fell Into A Black Hole?” here: https://youtu.be/BKIkTKqWMfg?si=bTde4QxUeN6bN1Io But there was SO much weird and mind bending stuff about the cutting edge of black holes that didn't fit into that shorter episode, and we knew you'd want to hear it. So we decided we had to release the full conversation. It's just too cool and I think you'll love it. Now, strap in, because the cutting edge of black holes is absolutely WILD. As always, if you want more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe to support Huge If True. Chapters 00:00 What really is a black hole? 04:02 Warping space and time 8:08 Whats inside a black hole? 10:04 Photo of Sagittarius A* 13:03 How big are black holes? 15:19 How small are black holes? 19:37 Passing through the event horizon 23:45 Two perspectives 25:00 Spaghettification 29:22 You see this on Earth 31:08 Can we get out? Maybe! 34:04 The central question 38:08 What bothered everybody 42:07 Information encoded in pixels? 46:22 Black hole complementarity 51:30 Holographic principle 55:00 It’s hard for us 56:17 The universe as a network of qubits 57:08 Why black holes teach us so much 1:00:15 The firewall paradox 1:05:59 Are we living on the outside of a black hole? 1:07:55 Impacts on quantum computers 1:10:05 Why study black holes? 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: - “What If You Fell Into A Black Hole?” Huge If True: https://youtu.be/BKIkTKqWMfg?si=bTde4QxUeN6bN1Io - Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death, Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/e-P5IFTqB98?si=wFZijDyvIk-B2rG- - How Gravity Actually Works, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=ZsvnUR4NwiAPZgvi - Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe, Big Think: https://youtu.be/pGsbEd6w7PI?si=HysqaVGkVHyoyNLC - Travel Inside A Black Hole, VSauce: https://youtu.be/3pAnRKD4raY?si=9aA96AYZta4pZxsx - Brian Cox, Joe Rogan Interview: https://youtu.be/Rc7OHXJtWco?si=eaQjo7kxx4OiFoux - Do black holes explode? Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00768-4 - The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End, Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/ 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 — Welcome to the joke down low: Why should you never trust an atom? Because they make everything up! Find a way to use “atom” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

What If I Fell Into A Black Hole?

15 avr. 2025

What’s really happening inside a black hole? Go to http://hostinger.com/cleo for 10% off using code CLEO Imagine that you’re flying through space, when suddenly you start to get dragged toward a dark abyss. Reality as you know it starts to change. Time begins to warp. And you start to feel this strange sort of sensation of being stretched and squashed… You’re falling into a black hole, one of the most astonishing places in our universe. Some are so big they can fit over 60 of our solar systems across them, with masses up to 100 billion times our Sun. And once you fall into one past a certain point, nothing can escape. ... Or can it? I wanted to know the latest cutting edge research about black holes, so I called up my favorite physicist, Dr. Brian Cox to answer the question: If you fell into a black hole, what would actually happen to you? What would it feel like? And what does our newest science tell us is really happening inside a black hole? Chapters: 0:00 What if you fall into a black hole? 1:20 What is a black hole, really? 2:20 How do we find black holes? 3:17 What do black holes look like? 4:46 How big are black holes? 6:28 What would it feel like to fall into a black hole? 7:40 What would you see from far away? 9:18 What happens at the event horizon? 10:58 What is spaghettification? 11:58 What is the singularity? 13:00 Can you ever get out of a black hole? 14:00 Wait, that’s weird… 15:00 The black hole information paradox 16:09 The cutting edge of black holes 17:42 Why are black holes so important? Professor Brian Cox is performing a run of live shows across the US! Check out briancoxlive.co.uk for more information. I can't wait. 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: - Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death, Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/e-P5IFTqB98?si=wFZijDyvIk-B2rG- - How Gravity Actually Works, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=ZsvnUR4NwiAPZgvi - Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe, Big Think: https://youtu.be/pGsbEd6w7PI?si=HysqaVGkVHyoyNLC - Travel Inside A Black Hole, VSauce: https://youtu.be/3pAnRKD4raY?si=9aA96AYZta4pZxsx - Brian Cox, Joe Rogan Interview: https://youtu.be/Rc7OHXJtWco?si=eaQjo7kxx4OiFoux - Do black holes explode? Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00768-4 - The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End, Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/ 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 Welcome to the joke down low: What do you give a black hole? Some space. Find a way to use “space” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

How Disney Built A Realistic Lightsaber

8 mars 2025

I tested Disney’s coolest new tech… Go to https://surfshark.com/cleo for 4 extra months of Surfshark Today I’ve been invited behind the scenes at Walt Disney Imagineering, the place where Disney brings their craziest ideas to life - from STUNT ROBOTS to a real life version of The Force, to adorable little droids! On this show Huge If True, we explore how tech can improve people’s lives - by living longer, going farther, doing more. But the reason I’ve loved Disney since I was a kid is they use tech to improve lives another way… by making people happy. And that means they end up pushing forward tech in some crazy, unexpected ways. So let me take you inside the magic, to show you the cutting edge tech they’re building… how it works… and what happens when we put it to the test! Chapters: 0:00 What is Disney building next? 1:11 What does Walt Disney Imagineering do? 1:52 What are Disney’s new droids really like? 2:47 How do Disney’s new droids work? 5:08 What’s the world’s most realistic lightsaber? 6:17 How do Disney’s lightsabers work? 8:05 How do you make The Force real? 9:53 How does Disney’s holotile work? 11:59 What will Disney use holotile for? 12:48 How does Disney use robot stunt doubles? 13:57 Special guests!! 15:54 Why is Disney tech huge if true? 16:15 :) 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: - I Tried A Disney Secret Project! Marques Brownlee https://youtu.be/1KEtxTQUzxY?si=Ovb2gpeoxbzlTTWN - Inside Disney’s ‘Area 51,’ Where Lightsabers and Other Tech Are Invented, WSJ https://youtu.be/9miiL-nb1bY?si=i180AST_ok4sNM_P - Pick, Carry, Place, Repeat | Inside the Lab with Atlas, Boston Dynamics https://youtu.be/v8UaiRgqvlc?si=Z3LU0pkhdCrUps6i - Duke Weaselton pushes his own way to the top, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/VFNruidzlZw?si=-2U1ft0TA7x8RrSa - A New Approach to Disney’s Robotic Character Pipeline, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/-cfIm06tcfA?si=1LXHwcc5EvIMpvN_ - Droids in Training: Imagineers Conduct Playtest at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/qNfRgZMWyCI?si=K6EujeGkKEcl5-pP - How Disney Designed a Robotic Spider-Man, WIRED https://youtu.be/oyXl3IhonRM?si=93IQjc9mJvMK8BS5 - Disney Imagineers Develop Cutting-edge, Free-roaming Robotic Actor, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/EdDJ77uDwWQ?si=A_I7abl3eVCdI3TK - Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles, TechCrunch https://youtu.be/ENa98h7M7qY?si=1M7Z5C3XDWQiELM5 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 — Welcome to the joke down low: Why’s it so hard to tell a good Star Wars joke? They all feel forced. Find a way to use “force” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's Vision for the Future

27 janv. 2025

What NVIDIA is trying to build next… Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories from our show Huge If True. You're probably hearing a lot about AI, DeepSeek, NVIDIA and more right now. If you want the big picture (and to start from the beginning), watch this Huge Conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. In the last few years, NVIDIA has skyrocketed to become one of the world's most valuable companies. That's because, beginning in the 90s, they led a fundamental shift in how computers work, now unleashing the current explosion of what’s possible with technology. A huge amount of the most futuristic tech you’re hearing about - in AI, robotics, gaming, self-driving cars, breakthrough medical research - relies on new chips and software designed by him and his company. During the dozens of background interviews I did to prepare for this, what struck me most was how much Jensen Huang has already influenced all our lives over the last 30 years, and how many are saying it’s just the beginning of something even bigger… We all need to know what he’s building and why, and most importantly, what he’s trying to build next, so you can decide for yourself what you think of it. Welcome to the second episode of our new series, Huge Conversations… If you want to know what the most important people building the future are imagining it will look like, Huge Conversations is the show for you. This interview was recorded at CES in Las Vegas on January 7th, 2025. Watch our first episode of Huge Conversations with Mark Zuckerberg here: https://youtu.be/oX7OduG1YmI?si=mMTesn2gvBeRJmos Watch our trailer to understand more about the mission of Huge Conversations: https://youtu.be/JbKzSDfDdns?si=0PLbyG-RkFGqi9jQ Chapters: 0:00 What is Jensen Huang trying to build? 1:40 The goal of this Huge Conversation 3:40 How did we get here? 4:25 What is a GPU? 5:45 Why video games first? 7:59 What is CUDA? 11:04 Why was AlexNet such a big deal? 15:40 Why are we hearing about AI so much now? 19:33 What are NVIDIA’s core beliefs? 21:34 Why does this moment feel so different? 24:08 What’s the future of robots? 30:15 What is Jensen’s 10-year vision? 32:00 What are the biggest concerns? 35:14 What are the biggest limitations? 38:05 How does NVIDIA make big bets on specific chips (transformers)? 42:33 How are chips made? 44:19 What’s Jensen’s next bet? 47:20 How should people prepare for this future? 50:12 How does this affect people’s jobs? 52:37 GeForce RTX 50 Series and NVIDIA DGX 55:50 What’s Jensen’s advice for the future? 59:07 How does Jensen want to be remembered? 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 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. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answer the question: If this works, what could go right? 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. Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/ — Welcome to the joke down low: Why does a GPU without CUDA wear glasses? Because it can’t C! If you don’t get this joke yet, watch the rest of the episode! Find a way to use “C” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought

14 déc. 2024

Dinosaurs were not like I thought... Check out https://groundnews.com/Cleo for a data-driven, balanced approach to staying informed. Use my link to save 50 percent on the Vantage plan and see how current events are framed from every perspective. I’m finally learning the truth about dinosaurs. I’ve loved dinosaurs since I was a kid, but it turns out a lot of what I thought I knew is wrong… or at the least outdated. So, in this video, I’m gonna show you the cutting edge of dinosaur discovery. I’ll give you rare access into a warehouse full of dinosaur bones, try to find my own fossil, and show you something new these scientists just discovered… Chapters: 00:00 What were dinosaurs really like? 01:08 Why is today a big deal for dinosaur discovery? 03:31 How big were dinosaurs, really? 05:49 When did dinosaurs actually live? 08:20 How many dinosaurs have we found? 09:26 What was the T-Rex like? 10:39 Did I find a bone?? 11:55 What IS a dinosaur? 14:31 What did dinosaur skin feel like? 15:06 What color were dinosaurs? 15:51 Can you guess this modern animal? 16:54 How were dinosaur fossils formed? 17:34 Why did dinosaurs go extinct?* 19:14 Why do we study dinosaurs? Thank you to the team at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum and the Pipestone Creek Bonebed for making my dreams of hunting for dinosaur fossils come true! Correction: 17:40 Some of the dinosaurs animated here went extinct before this mass extinction event. Thank you to the thoughtful commenter who pointed this out! We sincerely appreciate it. You can find me on TikTok here for short, fun tech explainers: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram You can find me on Instagram here for more personal stories: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram You can find me on Twitter here for thoughts, threads and curated news: 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: - How do dinosaur fossils form? Natural History Museum: https://youtu.be/87E8bQrX4Wg?si=O-aY_J-oLaENIRhb - Why are birds the only surviving dinosaurs? Natural History Museum: https://youtu.be/9GVvtKK5sFw?si=1sMXLcp_XbbKm7Mq - What Makes A Dinosaur? Minute Earth: https://youtu.be/HIbG-dUFnf4?si=JLnfG-oanRrYcq_9 - The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute, Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/dFCbJmgeHmA?si=fHEcj0C5VQ1qVks1 - Evolution of Dinosaurs in 10 Minutes, What If: https://youtu.be/qWvzBCfFNug?si=JiZigpmXXxb3izkz - The Biggest Dinosaurs Of All Time, Insider Science: https://youtu.be/VoFX7g0ffAA?si=g44WXEqz6A7K7y8w - Paleontologist Reviews Dinosaur Movie Scenes, Vanity Fair: https://youtu.be/PJXrCtQAYDs?si=82TDpRtXjX4MfATS - 25th anniversary of the first known feathered dinosaurs, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04586-4 - Tyrannosaurus rex couldn’t run says new research, U Manchester: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/tyrannosaurus-rex-couldnt-run-says-new-research/ - A Computational Analysis of Limb and Body Dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3192160/ - A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE, Field Museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/fresh-science-makeover-sue - Tracing the evolution of amniote chromosomes: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4031395/ - A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21700 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 and 35mm prime Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX Music: Musicbed and Tom Fox Musicbed SyncID: MB01ELGXSOMSWW0 Follow along for more episodes of Huge If True: https://www.youtube.com/cleoabram?sub_confirmation=1 — Welcome to the joke down low: Why did the Archaeopteryx catch the worm? Because it was an early bird! Use the word “bird” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who read to the end!

What If You Just Keep Digging?

18 nov. 2024

What's really down in the deep Earth? Get your LARQ water bottle here with discounts up to 30% off: https://bylarq.com/Cleo Have you ever thought, “what if I just dug a really really deep hole?” Well, the USSR actually did. The hole they dug is deeper than the deepest part of the ocean. It’s deeper than Mt. Everest is tall! They began digging it in the 1970s as part of a space race, but down. The United States only got to 600 ft before pulling funding. But the USSR kept going for 20 years. They made it about a third of the way through the Earth’s crust and then STOPPED. But what if… you just… kept... digging? If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth, what would you find? What would happen to you? And what does our newest tech tell us is REALLY down below your feet? In this video, we’re going on a journey to the center of the Earth… Chapters: 0:00 What if you dug a hole to Earth’s core? 1:05 What happens when I start digging? 1:36 What are the deepest made-made things? 2:25 What is the deepest hole humans ever dug? 3:03 What happens in the mantle? 3:45 Why is the Earth hot? 4:38 What did we used to think was inside the Earth? 5:06 How do we know what’s inside the Earth?? 5:59 What’s inside the core? 6:26 Um, the magnetic field switches direction?? 7:13 Why is the Earth in layers? 8:53 What’s at the center of the Earth? 9:46 Earth’s core spins at its own rate?? 10:52 What don’t we know? 11:33 Subscribe to support Huge If True! Corrections: 1:43 The Mponeng Gold Mine is in South Africa, not China. We always strive to get every detail right but we do sometimes make mistakes. We care more about getting it right than being right, and we'll always issue corrections. Thank you for your help making Huge If True great! 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: - What If You Dig A Hole Through The Earth (our previous Short): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1WXL1IfivVo - What If You Just Keep Digging (our previous Short): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yMNmhpQ7mOs - How Deep Humans Have Dug, Insider Tech: https://youtu.be/tzhWVzyo4kI?si=KveNdkqDB4H_GvT_ - What Would A Journey To Earth’s Core Be Like? Bright Side: https://youtu.be/3FoSAHk7DMA?si=E0yceK9HFFHbhzEN - What’s The Deepest Hole We Can Possibly Dig? RealLifeLore: https://youtu.be/E39GIysMevQ?si=Mt8kp_CPbbMXng0f - Why Did the Russians Seal Up the Deepest Hole in the World? How Stuff Works: https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/civil/kola-superdeep-borehole.htm - Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow, WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth/ - How Does Earth’s Core Generate a Magnetic Field? USGS: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-does-earths-core-generate-a-magnetic-field - Reversing the Geomagnetic Field, NASA: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/reversing-the-geomagnetic-field/ - Why Is It Hot Underground? Minute Earth: https://youtu.be/mOSpRzW2i_4?si=05MWOpajl3plH2Re - Earth’s inner core seems to be slowing its spin, Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/23/earth-core-slowing/ - Earth’s Inner Core May Have an Inner Core, Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earths-inner-core-may-have-an-inner-core/ 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 — Welcome to the joke down low: What do planets like to read? Comet books. Find a way to use “planet” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)