Gravitational Lensing
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Gravitational Lensing

Utopia Circle Edition: Imagine you're looking at a distant streetlight through the bottom of a wine glass. The curved glass bends the light, making the streetlight appear distorted, magnified, or…
Epigenetics
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Epigenetics

UtopiaCircle Edition: simple, poetic, scientific Think of your DNA as a giant piano.Every key (note) is a gene.But here’s the catch — not every key is played at the same…
What is the Universe?
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What is the Universe?

Imagine you’re sitting in your bedroom. Everything in that room — the chair, your phone, your heartbeat, even the dust floating in the air — is part of your room-verse. Now expand it: add your house, your street, your city, the Earth, the stars, galaxies — keep going. That totality is the universe.
🧬 How Do Vaccines Work?
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🧬 How Do Vaccines Work?

UtopiaCircle Edition: simple, poetic, scientific When doctors or scientists talk about vaccines, they throw around heavy phrases like “physiologic mechanisms” or “antigen-antibody response.”But here at Utopiacircle, we believe knowledge shouldn’t…
Dark matter
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Dark matter

UtopiaCircle Edition: simple, poetic, scientific When you hear scientists talk about Dark matter, it often sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: invisible cosmic stuff holding the universe together.…
Hypothesis, Theory, and Law
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Hypothesis, Theory, and Law

UtopiaCircle Edition: simple, poetic, scientific Hypothesis -- the educated guess Think of a hypothesis as your best guess in life, but a guess that can actually be tested.Definition: An educated…
How Stress Rewires Your Biology
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How Stress Rewires Your Biology

UtopiaCircle Edition: Simple, Poetic, Scientific Imagine your DNA is like a giant library filled with books.Each book is a gene, holding instructions for your body — how tall you’ll grow,…