Cleo Abram

Independent technology journalism. Provides optimistic, research-backed explanations of complex topics including quantum computing, space exploration, and energy infrastructure.

Cleo Abram: Disney's Lanny Smoot Built a Real Lightsaber That Actually Extends and Retracts

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22 Jun 2026

Disney’s Lanny Smoot Built a Real Lightsaber That Actually Extends and Retracts

Imagineer Lanny Smoot holds over 100 patents, and his most striking invention is a lightsaber

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Cleo Abram: Scientists Are Finding a New Dinosaur Species Every Week and Almost Everything We Thought We Knew Is Wrong

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18 Jun 2026

Scientists Are Finding a New Dinosaur Species Every Week and Almost Everything We Thought We Knew Is Wrong

At a bone bed in Alberta, Canada containing an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 Pachyrhinosaurus, paleontologists

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Cleo Abram: Jony Ive Sat Inside the Ferrari Luce and Explained Why It Has No Fake Engine Sound

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17 Jun 2026

Jony Ive Sat Inside the Ferrari Luce and Explained Why It Has No Fake Engine Sound

At a secret track in Italy, Jony Ive sat inside the first ever all-electric Ferrari

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7 Jun 2026

Scientists Are Using Drops of Water to Hunt the Colossal Squid – And What They’re Finding Is Extraordinary

In 2025, a century after scientists first identified the colossal squid, researchers still have never

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5 Jun 2026

LIGO Detects 294 Gravitational Waves and Builds a New Sense for Humanity – Inside the Desert Machine That Proved Einstein Right

In September 2015, Advanced LIGO detected its first gravitational wave chirp just three days after

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5 Jun 2026

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AlphaFold, Move 37, and the AI Tools Quietly Reshaping Human Health

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis revealed in a conversation with Cleo Abram how a mid-meeting

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Happy Planet

4 Jun 2026

Soviet Drill Hits Liquid Water 4,000 Meters Under Antarctica – And Scientists Found Life Inside

Cleo Abram documented the science surrounding subglacial Lake Vostok, a liquid lake roughly 160 miles

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