Cleo Abram

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

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Cleo Abram: The Builder Behind Muse, the AI Agent That Outpaced ChatGPT's Launch

October 7, 2026

Muse reached five million downloads in 22 days, outpacing ChatGPT's early growth. Its builder sat

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Cleo Abram: The Parker Solar Probe Is Rewriting Everything Scientists Thought They Knew About the Sun

September 30, 2026

The Parker Solar Probe crosses into the Sun's atmosphere moving fast enough to travel from

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Cleo Abram: Scientists Say the Ozone Hole Is Healing. Here's the Unlikely Story of How Antarctica Saved the World Twice

August 30, 2026

The ozone hole that dominated headlines in the 1980s is quietly closing, and Antarctica, the

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Jon Youshaei: MrBeast, MKBHD, and Casey Neistat Reveal What Actually Grows a YouTube Channel

August 12, 2026

Jon Youshaei's 15 years of YouTube interviews with MrBeast, Casey Neistat, and MKBHD reveal a

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Cleo Abram: Marques Brownlee and Cleo Abram Visited IBM's Real Quantum Computer and Left With the Best Analogy You'll Ever Hear

August 8, 2026

Marques Brownlee and Cleo Abram walked into IBM's research division to see the largest quantum

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Cleo Abram: The Underwater Forest of Spheres That Caught a Ghost Particle Faster Than Light

August 2, 2026

Off the coast of Sicily, more than 900 glass spheres hang 3,500 meters underwater, waiting

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: The Kola Superdeep Borehole Was Only 0.2% of the Way Down. Here Is What Waits at the Center.

July 13, 2026

The Kola Superdeep Borehole took Soviet scientists 20 years to drill and reached only 0.2%

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Cleo Abram: The 580-Carat Secret Inside a Diamond Lab That Could Fix Computing's Biggest Problem

July 1, 2026

Inside a lab full of microwave chambers, researcher Cleo Abram held a 580-carat lab-grown diamond

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

June 22, 2026

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

June 18, 2026

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

June 17, 2026

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

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June 7, 2026

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

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