Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

An Organism Turns Water Into Ice 🧊

31 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Tim Draper. This content was uploaded by Tim Draper. This is a YouTube video titled "An Organism Turns Water Into Ice 🧊" (created 2025-10-31T02:39:35+00:00). The excerpt is a short dialogue between two speakers (labeled SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) in which SPEAKER A describes concern about microplastics in toothpaste and mentions someone named Pranav working on a solution, while SPEAKER B describes a Pseudomonas microorganism that can turn water into ice. The clip appears to be an interview or conversational segment about environmental/biological topics. Thumbnail: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gZ8f-LCF4iM/maxresdefault.jpg

0.1 to 0.5% of your toothpaste are plastic. Every morning you wake up and you brush your teeth and you think about it. I just could not shake that feeling off. Luckily, the problem that I found unsettling, Pranav was already working on the solution.
There was one organism that is Pseudomonas which could actually turn water into ice.
Beautiful!
That organism can literally turn water into ice. Then I was like, what kind of superpower this microorganism has?