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…
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…