Over at Make Magazine they're celebrating the long life of their biosphere companion George ... upside down by curious (and slightly unruly) kids at an elementary school, and traveled to at ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded ...

Biosphere 2 is a groundbreaking research facility ... How to hard boil eggs without using water I've studied over 200 kids—the ones with high emotional intelligence have parents who do 7 things ...

In the ’80s, a group of scientists and artists wanted to know if they could recreate Earth’s ecosystem, so they built Biosphere 2 (Earth was known as Biosphere 1) in Oracle, Ariz. The experiment was ...

At the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, the next generation of explorers are being trained to help answer these questions and they’ve been tasked with an important mission — to design ...