Biosphere 2 project began in 1984, led by John Allen who called it “The Human Experiment.” The project sent eight explorers, or “biospherians,” to live in a sealed ecosystem for two years. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the '80s, a group of scientists and artists wanted to know if they could recreate Earth's ecosystem, so they built Biosphere 2 ...

In the early 1990s, a small team tried to survive in a hermetically sealed space containing replicas of Earth's ecosystems. Their trials and discoveries still have repercussions today. Glittering in ...

There has historically been tension and sometimes open hostility between those scientists engaged in detailed analytic work and scientists who study phenomena at larger scales. This is unfortunate, ...