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Curiosity in action. Happy Science covers discoveries, experiments, and breakthroughs that expand what we understand about the world, reported through the people doing the work and the real-world impact of what they find.

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TED: Mentalist Oz Pearlman Reveals the Memory Trick That Makes You Never Forget a Name

July 16, 2026

Mentalist Oz Pearlman Reveals the Memory Trick That Makes You Never Forget a Name

Mentalist Oz Pearlman told a TED audience he cannot read minds, then proceeded to name

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Kurzgesagt โ€“ In a Nutshell: Kurzgesagt Rides 200,000 Years of Human History in One Hour

July 15, 2026

Kurzgesagt Rides 200,000 Years of Human History in One Hour

Kurzgesagt compresses 200,000 years of human history into a single hour, moving at two generations

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Kurzgesagt โ€“ In a Nutshell: Kurzgesagt Spent 7 Years Making a 1-Hour Trip Through 4.5 Billion Years of Earth's History

July 15, 2026

Kurzgesagt Spent 7 Years Making a 1-Hour Trip Through 4.5 Billion Years of Earth’s History

Kurzgesagt spent seven years building a one-hour journey through 4.5 billion years of Earth's history,

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: An NYU Researcher Tested Two Breathing and Movement Tricks on Real Students and Their Anxiety Scores Dropped to Normal

July 14, 2026

An NYU Researcher Tested Two Breathing and Movement Tricks on Real Students and Their Anxiety Scores Dropped to Normal

An NYU anxiety researcher tested structured breathing and a ten-minute movement session on her own

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July 13, 2026

AI Decodes Vesuvius-Burned Scrolls to Recover Lost Stoic Philosophy and Philodemus’s ‘On Gods’ Book 8

Researchers have decoded burned Herculaneum scrolls using particle acceleration scanning and AI, recovering anonymous Stoic

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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 Was Only 0.2% of the Way Down. Here Is What Waits at the Center.

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

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: The Health Psychologist Who Spent 10 Years Getting Stress Wrong

July 13, 2026

The Health Psychologist Who Spent 10 Years Getting Stress Wrong

Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal spent a decade telling people that stress was dangerous, until a

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Whitney Houston: Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey's 'When You Believe' Still Hits Like the First Time

July 11, 2026

Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey’s ‘When You Believe’ Still Hits Like the First Time

Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey open 'When You Believe' not with triumph but with years

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: A Five-Minute Walk Every 30 Minutes Cut Blood Sugar Spikes by 60 Percent, and 20,000 People Proved It Works

July 9, 2026

A Five-Minute Walk Every 30 Minutes Cut Blood Sugar Spikes by 60 Percent, and 20,000 People Proved It Works

Exercise scientist Keith Diaz discovered that a casual five-minute walk every 30 minutes cuts post-meal

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: The Song That Turned a Ceiling Crash Into a Moment Nobody Planned

July 8, 2026

The One Republic Song That Turned a Ceiling Crash Into a Moment Nobody Planned

A live performance of 'Counting Stars' was already building to something when the ceiling rumbled,

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July 4, 2026

On America’s 250th Birthday, the Whole World Showed Up to the Party

A flag went up over a packed stadium on American soil this summer, and the

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Teddy Saunders: Dr. Seuss at Burning Man: Teddy Saunders Brings 'Oh, the Places You'll Go' to the Black Rock Desert

June 25, 2026

Dr. Seuss at Burning Man: Teddy Saunders Brings ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ to the Black Rock Desert

In 2011, Teddy Saunders took Dr. Seuss's 'Oh, the Places You'll Go' to the Black

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