ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

Nowadays, the ambitious and wild Biosphere 2 experiment is only remembered as a footnote to the Pauly Shore film Bio-Dome, which is a shame. The Biosphere 2 project was ambitious, idealistic, and ...

Biosphere 2 started with eight scientists and a very ambitious experiment. Now, almost 35 years later, it's still being used for cutting-edge research. Scientists continue to use it to study Earth's ...

In my recent EDN article, Man’s endeavor to live beyond Planet Earth, I discussed the present efforts of NASA and the Biosphere 2 in their efforts towards a Bio-Regenerative Life Support System (BLSS) ...

The University of Arizona-owned Biosphere 2 introduced the critically endangered Sonoyta pupfish into a stream inside of its desert biome Friday. Once found throughout the region, the pupfish can now ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Exciting developments are underway at the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2, where corals will soon be introduced into the ocean habitat for the first time under the ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research... ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, ...