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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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StarTalk: Neil deGrasse Tyson Says America Is Sliding Into a Scientific Vacuum, and History Shows the Only Way Out

July 24, 2026

Neil deGrasse Tyson traces the quiet erosion of American scientific leadership, from evaporating federal labs

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TED: Van Jones at TED: The Ancient Intelligence We Need to Survive the AI Age

July 24, 2026

Van Jones took a TED stage to ask whether the civilization being built by AI

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July 24, 2026

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby of Pluto after a

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Bedtime History: Mae Jemison Dreamed of Space as a Girl at Summer Camp. Then She Flew There.

July 23, 2026

Mae Jemison grew up watching the Apollo missions from Chicago, never seeing anyone who looked

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Olga Loiek: Your Brain Didn't Lose Curiosity. It Got Hijacked. Here's the Neuroscience Fix.

July 23, 2026

Olga Loiek, a computation and cognitive science student at the University of Pennsylvania, breaks down

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July 22, 2026

On July 12, 1895, Buckminster Fuller was born in Milton, Massachusetts. He went on to

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CrunchLabs: CrunchLabs Turned a Backyard Into a Water Science Playground for the Final Night of Camp

July 21, 2026

Mark Rober closed out Camp Crunch Labs with five backyard water demonstrations, including laminar flow

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Veritasium: The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering Actually Works, and Veritasium Proved It Live

July 21, 2026

In 1928, Phillip H. Smith watched more than half his radio signal bounce back before

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Forbes Life: Snoop Dogg on Going From Death Row Records to Gin and Juice Cans in Every Grocery Store

July 21, 2026

Snoop Dogg sat down with Forbes Life weeks after the Paris Olympics to trace the

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MrBeast 2: MrBeast Watches His 2015 Self Beg for 1 Million Subscribers — He Now Has 440 Million

July 18, 2026

In 2015, a 17-year-old Jimmy recorded a message to his future self from a bedroom

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Mark Rober: Mark Rober Pits a Military-Grade Laser Against a 100,000-Amp Lightning Machine Across 7 Household Objects

July 18, 2026

Mark Rober invited a laser expert and a lightning engineer to destroy seven household objects

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Dr. Seuss: Dr. Seuss Reads 'Oh, the Places You'll Go!' in This Animated Read-Along for Kids

July 17, 2026

Dr. Seuss's classic graduation book comes to life in a fully animated read-along, complete with

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