How Quiet are the World’s Quietest Rooms?

Cleo Abram May 19, 2025
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Video journalist making optimistic tech explainers. Huge If True. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram Twitter: https://twitter.com/cleoabram If you'd like to sponsor a Huge If True episode, reach out at the email below. If you're looking for my bio, here it is: 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. 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.

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You might’ve seen the world’s quietest rooms in a YouTube video. So how quiet are they really? I’m in one right now! Normal human conversation around 60dB… The sound of you breathing is around 10… The quietest sound humans can hear is roughly 0… But we know the sound of an AIR PARTICLE MOVING AROUND is about -23… This room is… drumroll please…. Subscribe for optimistic science and tech stories! #shorts #science #sciencefacts #sound #stemeducation